Microsoft are hijacking the RSS format... or at least that's not what they would say. In a recent talk to Gnomedex, and posted on their Blog they explain that IE 7 will have auto-discovery support for pages that present an RSS feed. Just like Mozilla/Firefox/Safari does right now. However they then went onto explain that they are also extending what you can do with RSS. [Anyone get a sinking feeling yet?]That's right... Microsoft will be implementing their own extension to RSS... hey, it's another 'Microsoft Standard'. This time, they seem to be trying their 'we'll make it heavily used by big corporates' (eg. Amazon) and then the RSS format will just have to accept our extension. Mean-time, whilst the standards are being discussed, IE 7 will have another bash at monopolising the Internet Browser. Truthfully, I doubt this will work - people (especially IT administrators who roll out updates to entire networks) aren't so gullable nowadays.
I think people will ignore Microsoft's non-standards, I for one wouldn't start using an RSS extension that isn't ratified for use by the developers of RSS... and if it every manages that, then we could start using it. That's the point of having standards. A mistake made early on in the Internet Browser wars, I don't think that'll be happening again.
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