PRZOOM - /newswire/ - Seattle, WA, United States, 2005/06/24 - Microsoft® Corporation has announced its plan to support RSS during Gnomedex 5.0 conference in Seattle. This in order to better support the publishing of online growing information..

Microsoft is about to join a very large group of RSS users and editors. Yahoo! leading advertising network uses (Really Simple Syndication) since quite some times now. RSS can help fight SPAM as more than half of your emails may not reach your readers due to spam filters or changed email addresses.

RSS is primarily used by Web-based news publishers to keep subscribers informed when new entries or news articles have been posted to websites. These updates are commonly known as "RSS feeds" and are chosen by interet users according to their interests in particular information published on various sites.

Longhorn is due for release in the second half of 2006. The software giant has previously unveiled new features in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, that will improve a user's ability to gather and organize information.

What is RSS ?

RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary, an XML format for distributing news headlines on the Web, also known as syndication. First started by Netscape as part of the My Netscape site, it expanded through Dave Winer and Userland. RSS started off in an RDF format, but RSS 0.91 (the current version) is not, which leads to some annoying issues when trying to parse different pages.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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