Microsoft's New Idea

Microsoft's at it again. Microsoft CTO and former Lotus Notes innovator Ray Ozzie is working on a RSS extension focused for better synchronization of different softwares and services. It's called SSE.

Microsoft's Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is a proposed add-on to RSS which alters the 'unidirectional' publishing method of RSS (website synchronises with browser/app) and makes it 'bi-directional' (website/user synchronises across multiple applications or a network).

Try saying that ten times fast. An example that Ozzie gives would be this: imagine inputting a calendar entry that not only updates on all the relevant software that's on your system, but it updates all the relevant software on the business network. This ensures that the company as a whole runs directly in tune without any hiccups.

With this extension, you will have full synchronization of all your employees without the constant need of upgrading your calendar yourself. You won't have to worry about using the same software that your clients are using. You save yourself tons of hassle and time with Microsoft's new RSS extension.

This will also spread beyond basic calendar synchs, imagine contact sharing and much more.

"There's nothing to announce right now in terms of which products will support the spec, when, and for what purpose, but people are experimenting with it and are intrigued", Ray Ozzie wrote in a Web log post. "It's time to bring the spec to you, so that you can do the same."

Ray also added that "everything about the design was about implementation simplicity and efficiency. So if simple is the goal, why not just adapt the Notes replication algorithm to this need?"

For some users, this next piece of information will make you wonder...Microsoft proposes to make SSE open source. What do most users out there think about this?