Microsoft Max: almost an RSS-reader

Posted on | September 10, 2006 | No Comments

Microsoft just added news-reader functioniality to their technology-preview Microsoft Max. Max basically is a photo-browser & RSS-reader based on the Windows Presentation Foundation. while others are amazed by the admittedly cool user-interface and the newspaper-styled post-summary (see screenshot below), I was disappointed that the development-team didn’t spend more time on the core features of the news-reader itself: subscribed feeds can’t be organized/sorted in any way, clicking a teaser opens the original post in the external browser, posts aren’t marked as read, some feeds (f.e. Scripting News) aren’t processed at all etc.

so currently Max is more about showing of what’s possible in regards to user-interfaces using the Presentation Foundation – which is, no doubt, impressive.

 

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