RSS in IE7 for Windows XP

Announcing plans last week to put RSS capabilities into Internet Explorer, Microsoft focused much of its attention on Longhorn, the next version of Windows. But the word from the company is that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP will also include some of the more basic RSS functions. Here's the statement Microsoft issued on the subject:

Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP2 will focus on interoperability, providing basic RSS functionality for discovering, viewing, and saving RSS feeds to the common feed list. Longhorn goes much further with a comprehensive platform for handling of RSS feeds. Specifically the common data store and sync engine will only be available in Longhorn to easily enable any developer to add RSS capabilities to applications.