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PDC: People and Groups in Longhorn

Yet another collection of session notes in outline form. This time it is People and Groups in Longhorn. Microsoft has spent a lot of time integrating the concept of a "person" into the OS. I thought the integration was really good and also extensible. They also did a demo where they downloaded an RSS feed put it into WinFS and had it associated with a person. You could view "communication history" for a person and get all their blog posts. You could then use the built-in searching and filtering to find exactly what you were looking for. This stuff has a lot of potential.

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theCoach said:

I am very curious to see how this turns out. My own turing test benchmark would be given a set of invitees, see if the system can rather automatically print out wedding invitations. There are all sorts of rules on how to address say a family with young children, a family with some young children, some adult children, married or unmarried people, step children, etc.
I would also like to see some capability that enabled me to automatically send out a message to "all of my wife's and my uncles".
As far as named group entities, I have had trouble in the past when companies merge, change names, have susidiary or third party proxies. I am very curious to see how thids works out.
# October 29, 2003 9:51 AM
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