First, the news: At Gnomedex today, Microsoft is going to add an extension to RSS to support ordered lists, and Longhorn is going to be built with integrated RSS support.. The extension is released under a Creative Commons license (similar to the one I use for my content). This is similar to what Yahoo did with the Media RSS.

I watched the Channel 9 video, and the support in Longhorn is tremendous, but that's not the point of this post.

It's amazing how fast people jump on the Anti-Microsoft bandwagon. Slashdot has a post already about it, and, ignoring that the content of the post has an anti-MS spin, one of the comments got me. Not the comment itself ("Repeat after me 'embrace and extend'"), but the fact that it's moderated to a "+5, Insightful". Real insightful. I think I read that comment on just about every post about Microsoft for the past 8 years now.

Then there's Nick Finck's post. Not so much his post, but the comments in it. Somehow, extending RSS has turned into MS RSS. Not exactly the same thing, but I guess you don't have to bother with details when you're bashing Microsoft.