Microsoft RSS

Update: Kevin gives the details.

Microsoft has announced that they’ll be including RSS support in IE 7 and not only that, but they’re extending it, too! Yay! Instead of embracing and extending, they’re literally extending it as they embrace it. Genius.

It seems they’re baking it into a lot of things and trying to basically use it for everything. One Microsoftie, Dare, gave this as his account of seeing the RSS demo:

Amar then showed a demo using Outlook 2003 and an RSS feed of the Gnomedex schedule he had created. The RSS feed had an item for each event on the schedule and each item had an iCalendar file as an enclosure. Amar had written a 200 line C# program that subscribed to this feed then inserted the events into his Outlook calendar so he could overlay his personal schedule with the Gnomedex schedule. The point of this demo was to show that RSS isn’t just for aggregators subscribing to blogs and news sites.

Dude, why convert a webpage to RSS and the event data to ICS files? We can do it all at once and all in the HTML.