Today at Gnomedex, Microsoft showed Internet Explorer 7. In fact, they only showed the RSS-related features of IE7 and despite lots of hype, I'm underwhelmed. Let's look at what was announced:

IE has an RSS button and can render RSS

No big deal. Both Firefox and Apple's Safari support RSS feeds.

Longhorn will have a system-wide OPML store

Microsoft needs to wake up and smell the network. I don't want a system-wide OPML store. I want a global OPML store. I want MSN, or other website to store my OPML and sync with my phone, laptop, desktop, PVR/media centre/gaming console when these are connected to the network and access a cached version when I'm not.

They've created a new RSS tag to signify a list

Handling lists as RSS is not a novel idea. Google and even MSN are aware that almost anything is a list.

Now, Microsoft may have some unannounced features implied above - and that would be fantastic - however as I said I'm currently underwhelmed.