Comments on: Microsoft Want to rename RSS ‘Web Feeds’

By: dentist slough

dentist slough — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:01:34 +0000

i love the name web feeds!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:17:26 +0000

any one know what a DVD is?
'nough said?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:38:51 +0000

I think this is a good idea. I was talking to a friend the other day and he asked what all the things were i had in thunderbird. I said RSS feeds and he looked at me blank, i said like webfeed type things and he got the idea. Now he uses them!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:33:31 +0000

By trying to change established terms, it seems very likely Microsoft are once again trying to “Embrace & Extend” an existing technology – the way they did with Java – to add Microsoft specific functionality. They want to own it.
The RSS format is stable, recognized, and established. It doesn't need Microsoft to extend it.
This is like Microsoft coming up and saying: we're changing our name for the CD to “Optical Disk” because we think that is more descriptive of the technology, and we'll be extending it. And by the way, future versions will only work with Microsoft supplied drivers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:56:50 +0000

Great writeup on this topic. I have tried on numerous occassions to explain what RSS is to family and coworkers and it always ends with the person I'm explaining to having a dazed expression and a reply of “huh.” To really get across what this technology is and what it can do for the average user, a new descriptor is definitely needed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:30:29 +0000

I agree that the name of RSS should be changed. I really think in the near future RSS will be all over the place, doing all sorts of task – many of which we haven't even begun to think of yet. However, I think that the techology will be “invisible.” People won't really realize or know or care that RSS is providing this or that; it just will. I'd venture to say that there's a small group of people who already use RSS without really knowing it. I've read stories about test groups reporting that they didn't know what blogs were, yet were just watched reading blogs. Same principle.
All that aside, I'M NOT SURE I WANT MS TO COME UP WITH THE NEW NAME. See: “Vista”, “XP”, the use of the word “explorer” to mean multiple apps, etc.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:03:37 +0000

M$ renames RSS, feeds suddenly fill with advertising and loose their appeal…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:38:03 +0000

“RSS” is a bit too geeky for most to make an impression. Apple should have hit this one first, instead of going on with the RSS bandwagon.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:43:10 +0000

Why not call this what it orginally was? A Channel. Remember IE4 ?
Offline reading of a website/blog/show notes and download the attachments/podcast/mp3

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:38:04 +0000

I don't understand why those who know, can't teach those who don't. We are constantly seeing things change to make them more marketable. When I was young radio station were known by their call letters. WABC, WXYZ etc.
Now they are starting to call them Mike or Frank. If people aren't picking up on something new then someone isn't doing enough to explain it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:32:10 +0000

Yes, why not lets rename it Simple content for Simple Minds. Instead of a EU having to educate themselves….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:10:22 +0000

URL? ISP? HTTP? LAN? HTML? DSL? P2P?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:52:21 +0000

But RSS is used for far more than simply delivering headlines;internal office communication, content delivery, LAN system communication.
This is just another example of M$ attempting to reappropriate an idea to fit their intentions as opposed to allowing standards to prevail.
This is marketing for them. Yes you may have to explain what RSS means for the time being, however not too long ago one had to do the same for the Internet, or DSL or 401k. Concepts enter the collective lexicon through entrenchment, not repurposing.
-Thom