Yesterday Microsoft announced a version of the Max product using the new .NET framework. I rushed to download the beta (ok, I usually don’t do that, but look at the screenshots!) and…
I discovered it won’t work on Italian platforms: it currently support only English, German and Japanese. 
Ok, I will wait… 
Hope they get Max to support the Italian language as soon as possible, as I’m actually looking for a standalone aggregator but can’t find one I really like.
Scoble blogged about Max, Ryan Stewart blogged about Max, David Brunelle blogged about Max, so I’m not blogging about Max’s features and flaws…of course there’s a lot of work to do to consider it a complete product. Interesting post @ freitasm too.
Though I’m just getting more curious about the new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It looks like WPF-based apps will be really sleek, absolutely stunning (to borrow Stewart’s definition)! Yet I just hope they won’t be too heavy on the graphic subsystem…
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Here is an idea. Would MS dare open up an old version of Windows, perhaps Win 2000, to the open source community? I want to see what a community of developers could make of inheriting a pre-existing standard (rather than having to try to build one from scratch). It would help bring MS products to developing countries legally…and encourage the sale of other MS software (such as office, etc).
Alternately, with Mac OS coming to life on Intel processors, they should consider offering the OS for free as a MS alternative, and concentrate of selling additional hardware (ipods, etc) and software to a suddenly much wider array of Mac users. The possibilities down that road are amazing – exciting.
I am looking forward to the next two years of OS developments. A critical time for all players and I am waiting for someone to do something extraordinary.