Microsofted
by Volker Weber
Jens Alfke writes:
Cool, I’ve finally been Microsofted ! I’ve long been aware of MS’s penchant for copying Apple, but this is, I think, the first time it’s happened to something I myself worked on (unless there’s a Stickies ripoff in XP already?)
As others have already noted, the in-browser RSS/Atom support Microsoft has announced with great fanfare for the increasingly-vaporous Longhorn is pretty much identical to the Safari RSS (aka Syndication.framework) I work on, which Apple shipped this spring in Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”. Same “RSS” button in the address bar, same feeds-as-bookmarks, same cross-app data store.
Comments
Even the BBC sensationalised this story (although they did at least pay lip service to the RSS integration in Firefox and Safari):
BBC: Microsoft makes web feeds easier.
Yup, good old MS, innovators to the core...
Ben Poole, 2005-06-28