Chad Dickerson at InfoWorld compares how his servers handled the deluge of requests from the launch of Active Desktop in IE4 to how they might react to default RSS feeds in Longhorn. However, this time he says it's a very different scenario, particularly when you consider how Microsoft is blogging for feedback...
That was eight years ago, of course, so I'm glad to see that Longhorn Team RSS has a blog with open comments. Even if there were problems like we experienced back then, I think it would be impossible for Microsoft to hide from them anyway (not in a Scoble world anyway).
