Robert Scoble seems to have had a change of heart over RSS. From the Business Blog Summit in San Francisco he questions the use of the term “RSS” after seeming to agree with Dave Winer’s view last week. For the non-aficionado, Dave Winer, often credited with inventing much of the RSS code, believes the clunky engineering term should remain. Scoble appeared to agree with him.
However, now he says : “Everyone who understands the term RSS is at the bleeding edge. The other 97 per cent don’t really understand the term. The issue with Web feeds versus RSS is that the …read more

It’s being reported over at BetaNews that IE7 Beta 1 is crashing various applications on testers’ machines.
Instant Messaging (IM), Yahoo mail and MS Money are mentioned as programs finding IE7 hard to live with. “Trillian, a popular multi-network IM client, Gaim and IM2 all spit out error messages when loaded alongside IE7, and the only fix is to uninstall Microsoft’s new browser.”
The problem seems to lie with a DLL file used by the multi-network clients to connect to MSN’s Messenger service. IE7 has a newer version of wininet.dll, which precipitates a crash if connected to AOL Instant Messenger while simultaneously …read more

Welcome to all who chance upon these shores. If you’ve come via the media release at the Blog Herald, you’ll know that this is a new blog devoted to the progress of the Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft and its associated browser, Internet Explorer, IE7, both now in beta. We’ll be here reporting on Vista news and progress right up to the public release, expected late 2006.
We hope you enjoy the experience and will visit us again. Feel free to make comments and tell us about your views.

Here’s an extract from Chris Wilson’s statement on IEblog concerning the shipping of IE7 Beta 1. Chris heads up the development team and here he’s concerned with Standards Compliance and CSS support in IE7.
“I’m very happy that we’ve shipped IE 7 beta 1. I wanted to make it clear that we know Beta 1 makes little progress for web developers in improving our standards support, particularly in our CSS implementation. I feel badly about this, but we have been focused on how to get the most done overall for IE7 …
“In IE7, we will fix as many of the …read more

When you use Windows Explorer in Vista to browse through a folder, you won’t see generic icons for applications that created various files. Instead, you’ll see an actual preview of the file or the first page of a multipage document as in the image above.