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IT Conversations Check-In
Mary Jo writes the Microsoft-Watch.com column for Ziff Davis and this week she gives us the latest on Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, which she expects will ship late Q2 or early Q3. (It's in beta, release candidate 1). And coming up this week, Mary Jo says the European Union should rule on their antitrust litigation against Microsoft over the bundling of the Windows Media Player. "Settlement talks have fallen by the wayside," she reports.
Bram was just named recipient of Wired Magazine's Rave Award for software development. In today's Check-In, he explains how BitTorrent benefits both the publishers of large files on the web: audio and video, for example. It's catching on, too. The client software has been downloaded more than 10 million times.
Andrew is finding new applications for XML content-syndication technologies. He has created the RSSTV extension to RSS and implemented RssReader, a TiVo hack that retrieves your friends' TV-show recommendations via RSS and adds them to your TiVo's To-Do list.
His latest project is "auto launch" support for BitTorrent in Userland Software's Radio so that large files available using BitTorrent can be downloaded during off-hours by the aggregator just like other files.
Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 1:23:40 AM 
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