Architecture Journal Reader (Beta)

Microsoft Downloads - Architecture Journal Reader

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We're proud to announce a new offline experience for the Journal, called the "Architecture Journal Reader."

Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in recent issues, this new reader is a locally installed application that enables you to take every issue of the Journal into a searchable, immersive, and easy-to-read experience. The application synchronizes with our content management services so that you'll automatically have access to the latest Journal issues without needing to download PDF files or checking online.

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This is kind of interesting (Think NY Times Reader but from MS, for MS)...

This will not move me from RSS/Atom feeds and would hate a "reader" war (there are enough of those going on already...), but it's a cool demonstration of MS technology.

I hope the source is released. Like I said, I personally may not use this much, but I think the tech behind it is pretty darn cool. And I think this would be great for a internal company newsletter, communication channel, etc. Much easier for the general corporate masses to use...

The deployed assemblies are pretty compact too (the power of having a 30+ MB framework behind you I guess  ;)