[CS-FSLUG] NI: RSS: Death knell to Atom? Birth of an 'open' era for Microsoft?

[Fred A. Miller]

"In the bigger picture, I can't help but wonder if there's more than meets the 
eye to Microsoft's support of RSS, as well as the extension of RSS to support 
ordered lists.   First, to have Microsoft come out and support RSS and not 
support the other syndication technology (Atom — yes, I asked Editors Note: 
This has changed, see the update below) doesn't bode well for Atom.  
Furthermore, members of the Atom community have discussed how Atom is 
designed to address subscription scenarios that RSS isn't well equipped to 
address.  Well, before today's announcement, RSS was not very well equipped 
to subscribe to ordered lists (although you could technically fudge it like I 
do with something like del.icio.us and FireFox's Live Bookmarks).   Now, by 
virtue of an extension, it is.  Perhaps any extrapolations — like the one 
where I'm thinking that RSS can probably be similarly extended to support the 
scenarios that only Atom could handle before — would be overly simplistic.  
I'm sure that by the end of the day or sometime next week, some part of the 
blogosphere will have this issue vetted, dissected, and thoroughly hashed 
out."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1543&tag=nl.e539

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