14 DAY TRIAL // Following the problem of the 800 MB of memory required by Vista in idle mode and the bitter announcement that the OS will not support EFI booting until somewhere in 2007, when Longhorn Server is expected, there's an open-source wind with a pleasant clipboard scent blowing from Redmond.
According to Reuters, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft's CTO (Chief Technical Officer), presented during the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference the Live Clipboard concept, which is expected to allow Internet users to copy paste web data from one site to another, while keeping the formatting and structure.
"It allows the user to copy structured information from one place to another in a non-geeky fashion," Ozzie was quoted as saying to approximately 1,000 programmers and Web developers attending the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference.
Microsoft's CTO made a demonstration and copied his personal contact information out of his computer address book into an online shopping checkout page, and all this in a record time.
Ozzie explained more about the Live Clipboard on his blog: ?The goal is to create a standard that works across many different scenarios, many different types of websites, and many different PC-based applications."
An interesting part of this project is the open-source nature of the licenses applied to the companies that want to implement the Live Clipboard.
And since we are talking about the clipboard, we should mention the warning given by Microsoft in February, when the company showed that the text copied in the clipboard can be seen on the Internet.
For this problem, the advice is to avoid storing your important data (passwords, credit card numbers, PIN codes, etc) in the clipboard memory while browsing the Internet, because it's vulnerable.