Microsoft has finally flung its considerable bulk behind RSS as an effective distribution platform. This morning, Bill Gates announced considerable support for syndication in the next version of MS office. Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research is blogging it live from PDC. His first thoughts:
RSS support in Office is nice. Not only does the system track RSS via subscriptions in IE 7 (and has an RSS gadget built into the new Vista Sidebar) but Office supports RSS as well. Outlook finally adds integrated RSS support (which is my preferred way to read RSS). In general, it looks like RSS aggregators are indeed a commodity
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