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Outlook, RSS, & the user-agent string
10 October 06 03:46 PM | michaelaffronti | 6 Comments   
One 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 subscribers an Read More...
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RSS & AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 – part 2
27 September 06 10:19 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
A few days ago I posted on how to use AutoArchive in Outlook 2007 to help manage the size impact of your RSS Feeds on your Exchange mailbox. One of the downsides to using AutoArchive is that there is no easy way to apply a defined set of parameters to Read More...
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RSS & AutoArchive in Outlook 2007
22 September 06 08:53 AM | michaelaffronti | 9 Comments   
The volume of content on some RSS Feeds can be very high. When you add more RSS Feeds to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, you might discover that the size of your Microsoft Exchange mailbox (mailbox: Location on a Microsoft Exchange server where your e-mail Read More...
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RSS in Outlook - upgrading from Beta 2 to B2TR
18 September 06 10:01 AM | michaelaffronti | 8 Comments   
With the Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh now live on the web , I wanted to take a few minutes and talk about the best way to get your RSS feeds up and running after you upgrade. The B2TR installation is actually a patch that installs on top of the original Read More...
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Paul Thurrott review of Office B2TR
14 September 06 01:40 PM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   
Another great review by Paul Thurrott over on the Windows SuperSite: http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/office2007_beta2_tr.asp . He's got some great information on Outlook and talks specifically about the new Instant Search functionality. Read More...
Dupes part deux
10 July 06 01:12 PM | michaelaffronti | 15 Comments   
There's been some conversations going on about how Outlook is handling duplicate RSS items and what that means for bloggers. Sorry for the confusion – what we've done in Outlook 2007 recently around duplicates is to reduce the erroneous amount that occur Read More...
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Dupes be gone!
06 July 06 09:28 AM | michaelaffronti | 18 Comments   
Duplicate items are an RSS aggregator's worst enemy, and many of the dedicated folks who are using Outlook 2007 Beta 2 know we did not do a great job in that build of handling the many ways that dupes can occur. Since the Beta 2 build we've made numerous Read More...
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so it begins...
30 June 06 09:35 AM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
9:36am, just ran into Hans (former Outlook PM now Walter Cronkite apprentice) and am sitting in the main room of the conference. We've got a Windows Live booth outside of the conference room that's got a few Vista demo machines and it's also where Joe Read More...
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Gnomedex 6.0 baby!
29 June 06 01:52 PM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
Gnomedex 6.0 starts tonight! Last year was a blast and I'm looking forward to attending this weekend. I'll be there with a bunch of other folks from Microsoft representing Office, XBox, Windows Live, Vista, and a bunch of other teams. We'll have a little Read More...
Blogging from Word 2007
12 May 06 10:18 AM | michaelaffronti | 1 Comments   
My friend and colleague Joe Friend over in Word 2007 land (actually just upstairs from my office) has released the details of some awesome new functionalty enabled in the Word 2007 Beta 2: http://blogs.msdn.com/joe_friend/archive/2006/05/12/595963.aspx Read More...
RSS for concert lovers...
27 April 06 02:53 PM | michaelaffronti | 3 Comments   
I love going to concerts, but finding tickets to shows is often a pain - especially those that get sold out in a few minutes and you can't find anything on TicketMaster. My friend Hernan is an avid concert-goer as well, and recently told me a of a great Read More...
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Outlook, RSS, and the corporate environment
07 April 06 08:49 AM | michaelaffronti | 2 Comments   
Lot's of folks have been using the B1TR of Outlook 12 in corporate environments, and have asked what kind of interactions we'll have between RSS and their systems. By default, Outlook 12 delivers new RSS subscriptions to sub-folders underneath the "RSS Read More...
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10x10 - an amazing use of RSS
31 March 06 09:40 AM | michaelaffronti | 0 Comments   
http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html From their site: Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. Read More...
RSS in Outlook 2007 Q & A
30 March 06 01:33 PM | michaelaffronti | 11 Comments   
Many of you have posted great comments and questions on our RSS work. I wanted to take a few minutes to answer some of them. If you have any more please let me know. Is there any way to import feeds from OPML into Outlook 12? Yes, it's built right into Read More...
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Gettin' crafty with reading RSS feeds
09 March 06 09:18 AM | michaelaffronti | 10 Comments   
There are several cool ways you leverage Outlook's folder management and search infrastructure to improve the way you view RSS feeds inside the application. They range from the simple, like creating subfolders, to the complex, like using search folders Read More...
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