Comments on: The Location of Internet Explorer RSS Feeds http://www.jasondunn.com/the-location-of-internet-explorer-rss-feeds-389 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:41:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: links for 2007-05-23 « My Weblog http://www.jasondunn.com/the-location-of-internet-explorer-rss-feeds-389#comment-2449 links for 2007-05-23 « My Weblog Wed, 23 May 2007 10:20:13 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/the-location-of-internet-explorer-rss-feeds-389#comment-2449 [...] The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn » Blog Archive » The Location of Internet Explorer RSS Feeds (tags: rss rssreader opml feeddemon ie7 outlook web20) [...] [...] The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn » Blog Archive » The Location of Internet Explorer RSS Feeds (tags: rss rssreader opml feeddemon ie7 outlook web20) [...]

]]> By: nick_randolph http://www.jasondunn.com/the-location-of-internet-explorer-rss-feeds-389#comment-2421 nick_randolph Mon, 21 May 2007 08:29:00 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/the-location-of-internet-explorer-rss-feeds-389#comment-2421 Jason - I'm glad that I'm not the only person who thinks that the Outlook 2007 integration with the RSS feedstore sux to the absolute maximum. The few times I tried it I have ended up with duplicate items, outlook not being able to send/receive and as you quite rightly points out it doesn't keep the read items in sync with the core feed store. After you pointed out where the feeds are stored on the drive I bothered to go and look at them and of course they are a propietary format - why, why, why? I don't get MS they had a perfect opportunity to use their own products (or even just XML) and yet they pick the worse (and in this day in age unforgivable) option of creating their own format. For example, like Media Centre, they could have used SQL Server CE as the backing db for tracking feed information. This would mean that as a developer we don't need to go a rubbish native interface, instead we could use the managed wrapper for SQL CE to access the data (and extend with our own metadata)! Jason - I’m glad that I’m not the only person who thinks that the Outlook 2007 integration with the RSS feedstore sux to the absolute maximum. The few times I tried it I have ended up with duplicate items, outlook not being able to send/receive and as you quite rightly points out it doesn’t keep the read items in sync with the core feed store.

After you pointed out where the feeds are stored on the drive I bothered to go and look at them and of course they are a propietary format - why, why, why? I don’t get MS they had a perfect opportunity to use their own products (or even just XML) and yet they pick the worse (and in this day in age unforgivable) option of creating their own format. For example, like Media Centre, they could have used SQL Server CE as the backing db for tracking feed information. This would mean that as a developer we don’t need to go a rubbish native interface, instead we could use the managed wrapper for SQL CE to access the data (and extend with our own metadata)!

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