Hands on preview of Windows 7: Hey, it looks surprisingly good

Re:Hands on preview of Windows 7: Hey, it looks surprisingly... by raganwald on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @02:13PM (#346582)

I would have applauded OS notifications being an RSS feed. Well, not necessarily that exact feature, but some combination of "out of the box" thinking along with "embracing the way the world actually works instead of stuffing them into a windows box."

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Re:Hands on preview of Windows 7: Hey, it looks surprisingly... by lux on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @02:29PM (#346606)

An RSS version would be cool. If you aggregated multiple machines, you could keep tabs on a whole office that way.

The way I interpreted their notifications was that they'd add it as some sort of daily or scheduled notification in the system, like a popup. I can't stand the existing popups they've added in Vista (warnings, etc) or many of the ones they had before (yes, I really do want to move that file to the recycle bin, thanks), so more notices just seems like a step in the wrong direction.

RSS though, great idea! :)

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Re:Hands on preview of Windows 7: Hey, it looks surprisingly... by smanek on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @07:54PM (#346935)

There are already protocols better designed for that sort of thing (think SNMP or Syslog).

RSS is really just an XML schema optimized content syndication - it just isn't the right tool for the job. Not too mention that you probably don't want your one central server polling 50,000 desktops for updated RSS feeds every hour.

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Re:Hands on preview of Windows 7: Hey, it looks surprisingly... by lux on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @07:59PM (#346943)

Good point. A push-based tech would definitely be preferable there.

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