A CRM Riff : RSS Feeds and IE7

Friday, March 02, 2007 10:34 AM Jim Glass

RSS Feeds and IE7

I'm loving the Internet Explorer 7 integrated RSS feed button that is tied to the Favorites button. (you can click on the picture to the right to see what I see at a larger size.)

Now I track 50 or blogs but only visit the ones that have been updated. I know, I know, a lot of us have been doing this for years. But it used to involve subscriptions and/or installing a reader.

Now you do this using the browser without any special steps. And the many people that I show this to, didn't realize it was there or how powerful it is!

How to Use RSS on Microsoft.com

Now that you are familiar with IE7's RSS features, displaying Microsoft.com RSS feeds in your newsreader is simple. The icon next to a set of links or headlines on Microsoft.com indicates you can subscribe to the associated RSS feed.

To subscribe:

1. Click the RSS icon next to a set of links or headlines.

2. Click on the "Subscribe to this feed" prompt.

For an example of an RSS feed on Microsoft.com to which you can subscribe, see the following:

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# re: RSS Feeds and IE7

Friday, March 02, 2007 6:19 PM by Jim Glass

From a reader who couldn't comment to this post:

Wow you are a hard person to locate – especially for someone who’s MSDN Blog is about “people connections” but you don’t allow comments nor do you have an email link to contact you.

I had read your blog article: http://blogs.msdn.com/jim_glass/archive/2007/03/02/rss-feeds-and-ie7.aspx

And wanted to point you to a fun add-on called “Feeds Plus” (written by your RSS Group) – Feeds Plus adds pop-up notification to your RSS feeds.

http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/feedsplus.asp

Blake Handler

Microsoft MVP

http://bhandler.spaces.live.com

# re: RSS Feeds and IE7

Monday, March 05, 2007 12:36 PM by crmblog

And yet you found me. :o)

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About Jim Glass

As the Microsoft Dynamics CRM UX site manager, I am a passionate advocate for our customers, especially in the areas of CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, small business, and business web sites. After twenty years in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps, I started at Microsoft as a contractor on the newly formed NT DDK team in 92. I then moved to the Trolls, a production team for the Windows SDK and DDK teams. I lead the WBEM team which became the WMI SDK team. My last seven years has been spent as the Visual Studio SDK doc. manager. In my spare time I can be found tutoring my grandkids, playing the saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), playing summer-league basketball, and moderating the Sax On The Web forum.

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