RSS reader in Outlook 2007
I'm sure I'm way late to the party on this one. But I just tried using the RSS feature in outlook 2007 and I have to say that I'm not impressed.I exported my feeds from bloglines into an opml xml file. Outlook imported the 189 feeds, but ignored the folder structure I had set up.
Next I noticed that outlook was treating the individual stories in the various feeds as mail messages. This may work for some, but I think the distinction between a public news story that I'm monitoring is fundamentally different from an email message addressed to me. This was enough for me to initiate removal of the feeds.
I also noticed that outlook was running extremely slowly at this point. Each of the feeds was being processed individually it seemed.
Final complaint, I couldn't highlight multiple feeds and delete them, I endeded up highligting each rss feed and deleting. Somewhat annoying.
This is the second time I tried using a client based news reader. Aside from the issues raised above, I think this is a case where the cloud is a better location for the functionality. More on this at a later date.
