AFTER RAY OZZIE demonstrated how Live Clipboard makes the web as exciting as it was on the first day when I "viewed source", I started thinking the same thing that many in the community suspected for some time. I think Internet Explorer 8 will support microformats. Chris Wilson, the platform architect for IE, says "Mash-ups will continue to drive innovation. Componentization and semantic tagging of data will be supported. Microformats add meaning to content in HTML.”
Mary Jo Foley -- "Up Next. IE 8"
Ray Ozzie -- "Live Clipboard Example" using hCalendar references.
Factory Joe from Citizen Agency -- "The imminent rise of microformats"