Next iteration of Outlook will include RSS

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Adoption of RSS feeds by those unfamiliar with it should get a boost when Microsoft unveils its latest iteration of Outlook, its email/calendar/contact application that is a staple in most businesses. Outlook 12 will include the built-in ability to monitor feeds. Due out as part of Office 12 in mid-2006, Outlook 12 will include functionality that had to be added using products from third-party vendors such as NewsGator. Further, Exchange users will be able to have their feeds follow them from computer to computer.

Writing in his blog, search.subscribe.share, Outlook product manager Michael Affronti says Outlook will address the complexities of RSS with a simple interface.

Interacting with RSS feeds will be extremely similar to managing your mail items now.  Since we will have RSS live within the mail module we will keep the standard look and feel of folders, hierarchies, and the drag-and-drop support that users have come to depend and rely on.

All of which should mean that a lot of people who have never heard of RSS will start subscribing to feeds, even if they’ve never heard of RSS.

1. we already offer a free RSS reader for outlook 2003 and will soon offer one for Express users.  People can skip the Outlook 12 upgrade pressure.

   Posted by nick gogerty  on  12/29  at  04:59 PM

2. Thanks, Nick. I knew there were a few plugins available. The reason I think the Outlook 12 upgrade will have an impact is the number of corporations locked into the Office suite that don’t allow employees to download or install unapproved or unsupported software. For everybody else, though, products like yours are a terrific solution.

   Posted by Shel Holtz  on  12/29  at  05:17 PM

3. We believe compelling features for Office vista may be thin on the ground.  Today’s MSN dinosaur ads are trying to get people to change to Office 2003.  We anticipate a big interest in “regressive” add-ins.  If you were a CIO how would you justify moving to Office 12 from a risk and cost basis.  Does the Ribbon cut it?  

   research from assetmetrix showed 48% of corporates still running Win2k as of june 2005.  We are the only Outlook reader that pays our distributors with ad reve share and anonymous metrics. 

   Posted by nick gogerty  on  12/29  at  05:35 PM

4. With an release of new Microsoft Office 2007 has actually ruined business of developers targeting on manufacture RSS-readers.

   Posted by Office outlook  on  10/19  at  03:27 AM