Thanks for the feedback, Dare.

The feed reading experience in IE is geared towards the light-weight reading experience with a user model that is similar to webpages. Like how newsgator with outlook treats feed data like email items, IE treats a feed like a long webpage with a set of links, some links that are new, and some links that you've seen before.

Our goal is not to be the best RSS aggregator, but to provide something that feels integrated within the browser and reach the novice users. This works well for feeds where you don't need to explicity deal with each individual feed item (i.e. a news feed). The item-level management that you've described is best suited for an aggregator or a RSS-enabled mail experience. We have the RSS Platform for people to build custom RSS consumption experience within an existing app (or even an entirely new app).

For advanced users, we expect them to take advantage of the feed discovery and subscribe experience within IE, and then have their feed reading in the application of their choice. Any chance of RSS Bandit integrating with the IE7 feed list? :)

I agree that there's great value in search folders and roll-up newspaper views, but it is not in scope for this release.

Keep the feedback and ideas coming!

IE uses ClearType settings by default, ignoring the system wide settings; see http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=159534#159534

Perhaps it's time to approach Microsoft about funding RSS Bandit and its integration into IE7. You did mention flipping RSS Bandit before. ;)

One very cool feature of the RSS support -- automatic support for categorization, word-wheeling, and simple list extensions.

Here are my comments I sent to the IE team:

In IE 6, I could drag the address bar, buttons, etc etc all over the place, now I cant. I want to arrange things where I want them.

Also, I’d like to have at least an *option* to force a maximum of a single instance of IE no matter what. So clicking on links in email come up as a new *tab*, not a new instance. That’s one of the big benefits of tabbed browsing if you ask me, you don’t have 800 instances cluttering up your task bar.

Yall may laugh, but I think Avantbrowser does both of the above best, and their tab support is terrific. (plus you get mouse gestures, etc etc etc)

I wouldn't expect, nor want, very advanced feed reading features in the browser. Can't we just let the browser function as a browser and put specialized, non-browser-related functionality elsewhere?

I already like that IE 7 seems to default into a mode whereby it doesn't have a standard menu bar. The browser should be lean, efficient, standards compliant and high performance. Not a bloated mess of random features.