Microsoft UniveRSS for Windows Vista

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Maza
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Microsoft UniveRSS for Windows Vista

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How many members here have tried, or heard of the Microsoft UniveRSS WPF application for Windows Vista? UniveRSS, as described by Microsoft, leverages the Windows Presentation Foundation to introduce "a full-screen universe where galaxies represent the folders of your RSS feed directory, and the stars are represented by the spinning cubes that hold the feed information. Size and position of the feed cubes indicate how many unread items they contain."

Hardware requirements for UniveRSS are the same for Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs.
  • 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
    1 GB of system memory
    Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel.
The links for an official download from Microsoft are not working. A cursory Internet search led me to discover that the file is hosted by CHIP Holding GmbH. (Download link)

Hopefully someone finds this interesting or useful.
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Re: Microsoft UniveRSS for Windows Vista

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I gave it a go. Not bad TBH, I need to find some good RSS feeds for it though.

Maza
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Re: Microsoft UniveRSS for Windows Vista

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onza110 wrote:I gave it a go. Not bad TBH, I need to find some good RSS feeds for it though.
If you are interested, there is also a list of third-party, WPF-based applications. https://web.archive.org/web/20071217130 ... copia.aspx
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