Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Microsoft and RSS Feeds

On 14 august one Mike Torres renamed RSS-Feeds into Web-Feeds. Everybody can rename anything, but since Mike is a manager at Microsoft and there is not enough news a lot of commotion has been raised. Why?
In his article Mike is claiming other companies use also different names. So if someone else is doing something wrong, Mike may make the same mistake. Ok, so managers of Microsoft does not learn anything from:
* KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid: RSS = RSS and let us keep it that way!
* Not Invented Here Syndrome: RSS has been invented...not by Microsoft!
* A standard is a standard: W3C has never heard of standard HTML etc...
The days of Microsoft as leader are already numbered, but clever management will end this much sooner.
Hurray to the Open Source Community!


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