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by Anand M.
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Microsoft has this wonderful ability of having multiple teams develop similar features, but completely without any interaction, or so it seems.
The one that is bugging me now it the RSS syndication abilities. The new IE7, has the ability to read RSS/Atom feed and also act as a syndication system. When I talked to the IE team, they said that this whole engine was available as a COM library so that it can easily be used by third party applications.
Outlook 2007 also has the ability to be a syndication engine for RSS (Listed as one of the top 10 reasons to upgrade to Outlook 2007). As I was trying out the software I found that it does not have auto discovery capabilities and raised it as a feature request. Response - That is not part of Outlook's RSS functionalities. If it is using IE7's RSS engines, then this feature should be already in there as IE does auto discovery. My guess is that the Outlook team went ahead and wrote their own...:(
Why do two teams have to develop completely separate RSS engines, when both products are slated for release at around the same time? I currently think the IE7 engine is a lot more functional and since the IE team says it is designed to be used by third parties, shouldnât they have at least tried to get the Outlook team to use it?
I for one will surely not use a RSS syndicator that does not support auto discovery.
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