Microsoft to Extend RSS Support - Yahoo! News

by mtippett | June 24, 2005 at 09:19 am

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Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service Fri Jun 24, 4:00 AM ET

Microsoft is planning to extend the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard to better support the publishing of ordered lists of information, a company spokesperson says.
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Gary Schare, director of strategic product management in the Windows division of Microsoft, says that while RSS is a reliable standard for updating information in message form, it currently has no logical way to organize that information in a way that could help subscribers keep track of what is being fed to them.

"RSS is good for delivering what's new, but not so good for things that are getting sorted or reordered," Schare says.