I noticed that neowin has a story with a screenshot of sideshow. (This is not the longhorn one). I do suggest that people check it out, but check out this research paper instead of thier silly screenshot. The research paper has a number of screenshots. Sideshow has been one of my distractions at microsoft over the last year. I’ve written a ticket that tells me what’s being served at my cafiterria; one that hooks into my test machine automation informing me of when automated tasks are completed and the overall status of my machines; and even one that (with some hacking around in radio userland) tells me how many news items are waiting in the aggergator with a popup of the top ten. Double click the ticket and I get the web page or application to do more in. And there is still more that I have an itching to create.

RealNetworks Launches Versatile Streaming Server. SEATTLE (Reuters) – RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK.O) on Monday unveiled a new server capable of sending music and video over the Internet in all formats, including those of its digital media rivals Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) and Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O). By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]