Microsoft Bulls Into RSS Arena With Longhorn

The Redmond-based company will make a specification for Simple List Extensions available under the existing RSS license. The forthcoming, long-awaited, somewhat delayed update to the Windows operating system will arrive with support for RSS on board. This support will allow application developers to integrate RSS with their products. Based on comments in the IE developers' blog on MSDN, Microsoft will be among the first application developers to do so. "For example, a business user about to attend a conference could subscribe to the conference's event calendar. He can then use a Longhorn RSS-enabled calendar application to view the events in the RSS feed from within his calendar app," free Rocket RSS Reader account online and explore the feeds. David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business. Email him