You know what? Microsoft is really starting to fire on all cylinders. Maybe buying Groove and getting Ray Ozzie was a bigger event than I realized at the time.

Ray’s come up with one of the most brilliant technologies ever to hit the Web in my opinion: a standardized XML format describing clipboard data formats that can be used for site-to-site, site-to-desktop, and desktop-to-site copy & paste. Whoa. Let that sink in for a minute: with this technology (pure Javascript that works in IE and Firefox to start with), you can now right-click on an image on a Web site, select “copy”, right-click on another image somewhere else on that page or on a totally different Web site, select “paste”, and the data is transferred through structured XML and inserted as customized HTML into that page. Even RSS feed URLs can be brought along.

Check out the screencasts and the code, which is still in its infancy so it can only get better from here. This is big, folks. Really big.

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