The hype was mindgafflingly blabbleful.
Colour me very disappointed. Apparently Longhorn will be full of RSS goodies. I'm not exactly plugged-in to Microsoft intel but even I knew that before today. Apparently MS is adding extensions to RSS 2.0, anybody can do that through namespace extensions. Apple is doing the same thing for podcasting support in iTunes. And everbody got to see IE 7.0 which looks like Firefox only I've got Firefox now.
Longhorn won't run on my current machine and won't really mean anything to me until I and my customer/employers renew their hardware. Guess what? Many of them are using Windows 98, Word 97, Windows 2000, etc on current hardware. MS has been promising the future with Longhorn for 3 years now. A few weeks ago Apple promised that the future will have to be put off for another year or so on their platforms; now it's Microsoft's turn again. What I heard today was the tinkling of wrenches in the engine room as somebody tinkered with something "cool".
[Thanks to Boris for asking the question about the "community process" that MS had not even thought of until Scoble jumped in with an idea -- it will be at the Channel 9 wiki]
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The community process is evolving
I had a good chat with some Microsoft folks. I also set up simplelistextensions.org. We'll keep following along with this: when an organization as big as Microsoft moves, we have no choice but to keep up, and try and stay in touch with people inside the larger organization so we can continue to communicate and collaborate.
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