Rick asks why doesn’t Microsoft Connect have RSS?

by on December 22, 2005

Rick Hallihan asks why Microsoft’s http://connect.microsoft.com/ site doesn’t have RSS? And then gives a list of other teams that he’d like to see have RSS feeds. My reply?

Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.

Like I said, I’m drinking too much crappy coffee. I’m off to chase these teams and explain why RSS is important. Let’s just start with “Rick asked for it.”

Last year I said “any marketer who doesn’t have RSS should be fired.” I was told that was a bit extreme. OK, here’s something that Microsofties can understand a bit better: “any team that doesn’t have an RSS feed should get automatic 3.0s on their next reviews.” Yes. For the whole team. That’ll put some pressure on people to start putting RSS on. http://www.mix06.com got the message. 4.0s for them! :-)

  • Forgot to mention, this is the site I wish MSNBC would add RSS to. They even call this a "diary" but no RSS feed? 3.0s for MSNBC group!

    http://gr8life.msnbc.com/
  • The Mix06 site looks like nothing that's come out of MS lately. In the past, many of the event/conference sites looked like a rehash of MS.com which is just terrible. But this site is straigh-forward and concise. Nice!
  • /pd
    hahaha thanks Matt for confirming that Xbox is not using rss. I asked Scobles this here and he said ""pd: AJAX? I’m checking on that. Heheh. "
  • I am all for connect RSS feeds. Especially for beta specific programs, like Vista. I hate missing news about the beta when I just dont check the site.

    Xbox.com needs it too!
  • /pd
    kewl, subscribed. solly, when I surfed using blackberry the UI sucked .. and could not see the blog entry :(-
  • Keep pushing and hopefully we (Microsoft's customers) will one day live in RSS Utopia. My personal gripe is that MSN Groups has no RSS feeds (or group specific search for that matter). If you are ever shooting video down in MSN Groups land can you nag 'em a bit?
  • /pd
    Oh 4got, where the blog for mix06 ?
  • /pd
    Yeah I am looking fwd for mix06 feeds.
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