The Houston Chronicle has a terse-but-well-taken commentary on the state of RSS in the world, specifically the Microsoft world.

It is interesting that Safari has a fully-integrated RSS reader, eliminating at some level need for third-party software. Whether it is fully-featured enough to warrant tossing other readers remains to be seen.

Observing the heat of the browser wars lately (Get Firefox!), I suspect that a standard-issue RSS reader (one which hopefully surpasses the anemic Sage) will find its way into Mozilla soon enough. And then one magical day, IE will get around to it, introducing the unwashed MSN hordes to syndication, and RSS will be as mainstream as Starbucks.

(And while we’re daydreaming, maybe by then Atom will reach 1.0?)

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