Brian's blog: Longhorn loves RSS

Microsoft made an announcement at Gnomedex on Friday about details of how RSS will be supported in Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7. It's no surprise that IE 7 will have an easy way to read and subscribe to RSS feeds, but what's really cool is how the feeds will be managed. Longhorn will include a common feed-list to maintain a single list of RSS feeds that can be used by other applications. This is really great, considering that none of the current news readers have a way to share feed lists easily.

The Channel 9 video below shows how RSS Bandit was quickly modified to use the common feed-list. They also set up a calendar in Outlook 2003 that is populated by iCalendar (ICS) files embedded in an RSS feed with the Gnomedex schedule and wrote a sample app that took an RSS feed from a Photoblog and created a screen saver with the text of the blog entry as the photo caption. Fast forward the video to 23:00 to get a glimpse of IE 7!