UniveRSS

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Dec 6, 20062 mins

As DBAs need RSS feeds the same as everyone else, I thought I'd pass along this new project by MS. It's a 3D RSS reader that reads directly from your IE7 store. It's an interesting concept, but im just not sure I'm ready for something like this. I don't necessarily want to browse my news like I'm traveling through the galaxy. I tend to prefer to just look at a list and choose what I want to read. This type of br

As DBAs need RSS feeds the same as everyone else, I thought I’d pass along this new project by MS. It’s a 3D RSS reader that reads directly from your IE7 store. It’s an interesting concept, but im just not sure I’m ready for something like this. I don’t necessarily want to browse my news like I’m traveling through the galaxy. I tend to prefer to just look at a list and choose what I want to read. This type of browsing can take a long time.

I downloaded it last night, and you need .Net framework 3.0 and Direct-X 9. The biggest problem right now is the same one you have for every startup project, and that’s that nobody’s actually writing for it yet. So all of my 30-something feeds have the generic RSS logo instead of a cool little graphic. So it makes it really hard to find anything at all. However, it does demonstrate the power of WPF which is something I’m a big fan of. Personally, I hope this project really takes off and becomes more practical. I love cool stuff like this. Anyway, here’s the link if any of you guys wanna check it out.

https://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/thepanel/featured/universs.aspxUnivRSS