Comments on: Microsoft’s lack of action will slow Podcasting Growth

By: robgreenlee

robgreenlee — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:16:25 +0000

Todd, The truth is that player 11 features had been locked down before podcasting had totally taken off. I cannot say in any detail about Microsoft's podcasting plans as I am under a tight NDA with Microsoft, but I can say that we are seeing the support for Enclosures in IE7 and Vista will have a core RSS support platform built-in. The question that we all have is how far will Microsoft dive into support for podcasting. Questions still remain like will we need to wait till Player 12 before we see it supported in the WM Player. I think it is safe to say that player 12 will have some level of support for podcasting and it has been in planning for quite a while already. We could see many potential things happen. It is possible to see a mid-product cycle upgrade of the media player or a stand-alone application with some type of directory. We could also see podcasting supported in Outlook or Media Center PC. I have no idea what direction it could go as all of the above is total speculations on my part and even if I knew I still could not tell you for sure anyway. Rob Greenlee http://www.webtalkradio.com http://mobilcasting.blogspot.com

By: BentCorner

BentCorner — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:14:36 +0000

When has Microsoft ever been on the leading edge of something new? Look how long it took them to even support TCP/IP. I don’t expect Microsoft to ever be on the forefront of something new.

By: Bikeridingdonutguy

Bikeridingdonutguy — Mon, 22 May 2006 16:29:04 +0000

Whoa Tood!

Why don’t you tell us how you really feel?

Just kidding of course, Microsoft really missed the boat, but then again-what do you expect………look how long it’s taking them to bring out Vista.

As usual-thanks for telling it like it is.

By: Bikeridingdonutguy

Bikeridingdonutguy — Mon, 22 May 2006 16:27:07 +0000