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First improvement to make: have it work so that it syncs across different computers.
Dave Rakowski
Allentown, PA
http://blog.windowsobserver.com/2006/03/07/micr...
I use Onfolio all the time, recommend it to everyone, and they also keyboard enabled it so that we could script it with ActiveWords! Should be exciting to see how it all rolls out!
That damned checkbook still hasn't arrived! Sigh.
Bought by Microsoft and already integrated into Windows Live Toolbar...? That explains why I haven't heard squat from Onfolio in ages. At least, the version I currently have (2.02) seems to work well for me. Hopefully, they'll continue to support this standalone version for a while.
That's a pretty silly example to use Robert...that of a company that saw a hole in its product offering, and bought what is, pretty much the best of the breed on the platform to fill that hole. That would seem to point out that there is real money to be made in a heterogeneous product offering, and it allows you to diversify your income streams. Considering the lower support costs of Mac software development, there's little logic in making things like Onfolio Windows - Only.
Unless you're the Senior Leadership of MS, still dreaming of the halcyon days of the late 90s, when people did your bidding.
Yes ! Why ?
http://www.onfolio.com/support/faq_acquisition....
I am using Onfolio every day and I love it for supporting Firefox AND IE. From my point of view this aquisition is a desaster for current loyal customers of Onfolio. Shortly there will be no more technical support and in the near future a lot of powerfull features like Firefox support and the Onfolio Publisher will be lost forever. It is a very sad day...
And yet MS continues to wonder why people dislike them.
Dave Rakowski
Allentown, PA
I mean, did you REALLY expect other browsers to get equal support at the same time? From MICROSOFT?
Next you'll be wondering why it doesn't work outside of Windows.
Do keep in mind that outside of a single division, The Mac BU, MS actively hates non-Windows platforms as corporate policy, and every new software release from every division apart from the Mac BU shows just how much MS leadership hates having to admit that they have customers not drinking the Kool-Aid.
I'd bet a dollar that BallmerGates both have FF/Linux toilet paper in active use in their homes.
Some of us use it every day - it is by far the most effective of the RSS reading tools which I have tried. And on the very day of acquisition, Microsoft has made absolutely clear that they are determined to break it.
I have never subscribed to anti-MS hysteria - I take what works from where I can find it. But to go out of your collective way to break stuff which works brilliantly and to stop a browswer-based application from working in a standards-compliant browser is a measure of breathtaking contempt for users of Onfolio. Scobleizer has done much to humanise the face of Microsoft. All of that goodwill is thrown away in a single act of destruction.
Give it a try and let us know what you think!
-charles
I really cannot see anything negative coming from the acquisition! I'm really looking forward to se how the product may be integrated with other MS products.
Personally, I would like to see a function that publishes a collection to a Sharepoint site.
During the last two years, I've som 50 collections with adademic papers, presentations and articles. I now see that som of the collections should be published on our company's knowlege portal.