Support for RSS News Feeds

IE 7.0 includes an easy way to subscribe to news feeds, regularly updated information
that sites publish in the format known as Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
When a surfer visits a site that publishes one or more news feeds, a square broadcast icon
on IE 7ís toolbar changes from grey to orange. Clicking the icon takes you to a page that
explains the content of a feed and provides a clickable link that subscribes you (see
Figure 10). This is a big improvement over previous news feed buttons in other browsers,
which formerly displayed raw XML code when clicked.
After youíve subscribed to a news feed, you can read it using IE 7ís Favorites pane. This
subwindow is accessed by clicking the yellow star in IEís toolbar and selecting Feeds.
The latest news items can be sorted by date or title or filtered by categories provided by
the author of the feed (see Figure 11).
IEís native feed handling isnít as capable as a dedicated readerís, such as NewsGator, or
an online news aggregatorís, such as Bloglines.com. But the addition of RSS support in IE
is certain to make this form of communications popular with a much larger chunk of
Internet users than had discovered news feeds prior to Vista.

RSS Feeds support, NewsGators, Bloglines