Obasanjo: MS RSS Announcement

MicroSoft had some "big" announcements about RSS at Gnomedex, which Dare Obasanjo covered in exquisite detail.

I put big in scarequotes because I can really only detect four things coming out of this:

1. Lots of enthusiasm from MS about RSS
2. Internet Explorer becomes something of an RSS reader
3. Longhorn gets an RSS library
4. Extensions to RSS 2.0 to better represent lists

Points 2 and 4 to arrive within an Internet age or so.

I might be worried about incompatible and propietary RSS extensions except RSS has such a simple data model and previous generators were often so crappy that consumers have been through this drill already. MS is just one more whizzer in the water.

Otherwise, yawn.