New Microsoft Web Service

MS has released an SDK for accessing Microsoft.com downloads. Nice idea. But what I'd really like to see is a SOAP API for accessing the knowledge base. I use that sucker enough that a rich client UI would be very handy. Plus, it would let me fix the annoying limitation that the kbase UI refuses to remember the fact that I always, always, always search for "All of the words entered" with a limit of 150 articles.

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  • And ability to filter out that long long list of Microsoft products...

  • If the KB UI really bothers you that much, you might want to consider creating your own UI to submit an appropriate get request to the KB search page. It would be a pretty trivial exercise, even if scraping of the product list from the live search page is included.

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