Outlook 12 to have RSS Integration

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1. testboy
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 4:46 am

   as soon as gmail integrates pim functionality i’ll drop outlook. i dont think there will be a market for email clients 5 years from now. hurrah for webbased email!

2. Bill Boebel
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 6:42 am

   I totally agree. We integrated an RSS reader into Webmail.us back in August because email is something that everybody understands - RSS isn’t. We allow our business customers to add required feeds to all of their employees accounts, and each user can also add and categorize their own feeds.

   So now the folks that don’t “get it”, and never will “get it”, are now able to use RSS because they understand email.

   Drop me an email if you want a free account to check it out.

   And we also offer the RSS+email integration with anybody’s third-party email account, as a free service as part of Webmail Lite.

3. Raj Bala
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 9:39 am

   The vendors who sell commercial RSS aggregators aren’t only ones that should be a little concerned.

   Anything that Microsoft does that dis-intermediates the user by way of change in client UI is a threat.

4. Phil Gomes
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 9:53 am

   For my part, I’ll only switch to a client-side RSS aggregator if it also “talks” to something online that I can get from multiple clients.

5. Kunal Anand
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 11:03 am

   Now what would be killer is feed integration with MSN Spaces. Imagine reading feeds in Outlook and on the web, with both clients aware of what has been read and what has not.

6. Craig Barnes
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 12:52 pm

   We expect and look forward to Outlook 12’s arrival. Aside from the RSS capability there are several other killer features. I can only comment about what Attensa is doing, but we look at RSS in OUtlook (or whereever) as a very, very good thing as our focus is on utilizing attention streams to improve thye user experience. You will see a faceless Attensa app for Outlook 12 to make it work much better.

7. Hiptrigger
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 9:12 pm

   Ya, sure, after 20 years of this, can’t we just build a universal feed/blog module that auto-generates a time-delayed story regarding Microsoft adopting some new technology or user experience trend? Embrace and replace. Destroy the little people, mop-up the businesses over with over 20 mil in revenue, rinse and repeat. The real story here in this post is what are they going to do to the RSS protocols… remember in ‘96 or so in early Outlook, Word docs were the forced first choice for creating and send e-mail. Nothing’s changed - they will fork with the format or tools one way or the other.

8. Brad
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 10:30 pm

   Is RSS that hard to integrate with? I’m sure it takes a software integration cycle, but the beauty of rss is that it is so easy to integrate with software packages. I do not think anyone will get a leg up because of rss. Any type of business model that hinges on RSS will need much more than “reader” functionality to create a defensible position. If someone finds that, I would love to hear it.

9. Brad
   

   December 24th, 2005 at 10:31 pm

   oh yeah, merry christmas

10. Tester
    

    December 25th, 2005 at 9:19 pm

    test!

11. Jeff
    

    December 25th, 2005 at 9:23 pm

    great post

12. Daniel Nerezov
    

    December 26th, 2005 at 8:05 am

    What did it for me was Google releasing their free analytics app and probably wiping out not less than a dozen promising startups in a matter of hours.

    The little guys are beginning to look more and more like sitting ducks and I don’t like it.

    Somebody please hear my call and do a proper, stand alone, sustainable internet business.

13. Ted Smith
    

    December 26th, 2005 at 3:59 pm

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14. Soma King
    

    December 26th, 2005 at 8:35 pm

    MS announced a while back they’d integrate RSS all over Vista. Why is anybody surprised about this now?

    This also doesn’t mean MS will do the integration right, i.e., innovating rather than copying. They’ll probably leave lots of gaps in functionality that can be filled by enterprising small fries.

15. Jaymoon
    

    December 28th, 2005 at 4:35 pm

    After using the Beta of Office 12 for the past month or so, I don’t use the RSS reader built in anymore. It’s not very comfortable to use unfortunately…

    They should dedicate an area of Outlook below the to-do bar, that periodically displays stories from RSS feeds you add… Cause right now it’s totally useless.