RSS in Outlook 12
The MS Outlook Program Manager, Michael Affronti, has posted an article (Part 1) on his weblog about the RSS Aggregation in Outlook 12: “RSS Aggregation in Outlook is aimed at providing the user with a consistent look, feel, and experience while interacting with RSS feeds and related information. While RSS can be a complex technology to interact with, Outlook will merge the complexities and cover it with our friendly user interface.”
Judging by the screenshot on his weblog it seems that managing RSS feeds will be a bit like managing newsgroups in Outlook (does anybody still use that?). But it’s clear to see that the possibilities of RSS in Outlook will bring millions of new businesspeople into the RSS world! Like Scoble writes: This is HUGE.
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