• by Shankar Gupta , June 24, 2005

Microsoft is expected to announce today at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle its new support for RSS in its new browser architecture.

Dave Winer, an RSS developer who also writes the Weblog ReallySimpleSyndication.com, posted in a Thursday blog entry that MSN will likely demonstrate a deeply integrated RSS in the upcoming version of the Explorer browser at today's conference.

The conference agenda, available at Gnomedex's Web site, states that Dean Hachamovitch, product unit manager for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, will give a keystone speech at 10:30 a.m. One of the topics he will talk about is: "Why 'really simple' is a good idea," according to the agenda.

Winer further wrote that Microsoft will be extending RSS support for non-news sites, such as iTunes playlists, or lists of Sharepoint documents. Currently, many sites that carry RSS feeds are news sites that use the technology to notify subscribers of up-to-the minute news developments. "Lists are all over the place, and people are starting to move them around via RSS, and they are not the usual kind of data that has been carried by RSS in the past," Winer wrote.

Microsoft did not return telephone calls seeking comment.