IE7 loves RSS

As you all will know there is a new beta available for IE7, and it’s hitting RSS in a big way. I’ve read a lot of posts on this new browser and the way it incorporates RSS, two of those I want to share:

IEBlog: “You might have seen or read about the RSS functionality in the user interface of IE7 Beta 2 Preview. There is a bit more to it then just letting users subscribe and read feeds from the IE7 user interface. The RSS functionality in IE7 is “powered” by the Windows RSS Platform. The Windows RSS Platform API encapsulates 3 main components: Common Feed List, Feed Synchronization Engine, and Feed Store.”

Dave Winner: “This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the first Microsoft release that includes comprehensive support for RSS not only on the producing side, but also on the consuming side. Until now, Microsoft has not shipped an RSS reader, and now they have, for Windows XP, a operating system with many millions of users. Their aggregator, and the underlying platform, is likely to be used in very large volume, likely becoming the most-installed aggregator.”

LifeHacker: “IE7 has a simple, slick interface with a nice tabbed window implementation and a built-in Quick Tabs view which provides Expose-like thumbnails of all the pages you’ve got open. The RSS features and keyboard shortcuts aren’t up to snuff, but the ever-important Control-T for a new tab works. The default search box engine is Google (!).”