http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspxOne of our dedicated MVP's, Patrick Schmid, reported in his post here that: If you provide an RSS feed for your blog, then there is a good chance that you use FeedBurner. FeedBurner is a great tool to get accurate statistics on how many subscribersen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx#1045951Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:28:46 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:1045951Brave Tech World<p>Microsoft Office just RTMed this week, which means in a couple of months people will be buying them on stores and it will come installed on their new PC. The great news is that Outlook 2007 has embedded support for RSS. This is a super easy way for people</p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1045951" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx#822688Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:19:39 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:822688Michael Wexler<p>Note that this has bugged email marketing vendors for years as well. &nbsp;Since Outlook doesn't give a clue that the user clicked on a link in an email, its difficult to know that a user is using Outlook and make sure that their emails are formatted properly for them in the future. &nbsp; If you can find a way to have the useragent for all clicks/requests (not just RSS) reflect that they originated in Outlook, you will make lots of users happy that they are getting properly formatted emails from their favorite vendors.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=822688" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx#820230Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:30:05 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:820230Patrick Schmid<p>Matt,</p> <p>The problem is that Outlook is not using the IE7 subscription mechanism. Outlook subscribed to a feed looks like IE7 browsing a feed, which means it looks like the case #1 in the blog post you indicated, and not like #2.</p> <p>Patrick Schmid</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=820230" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx#819826Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:23:08 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:819826Will Cox<p>And you can't do this because?</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385096.aspx">http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385096.aspx</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=819826" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx#816625Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:03:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:816625Matt Ellis<p>Hi - just to let you know that IE7's RSS platform sends a different user agent string when you've subscribed to a feed, so feedburner should know just fine that you've subscribed.</p> <p>See <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/04/28/586220.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2006/04/28/586220.aspx</a> for more.</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Matt</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=816625" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/rss-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx#815526Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:23:50 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:815526pschmid.net - Patrick Schmid: Putting You & I back into Office 2007’s UI - Another update on Outlook 2007/IE7 and FeedBurner Subscriber statistics<p>PingBack from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/10/61">http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/10/61</a></p> <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=815526" width="1" height="1">