microsoft backs rss - goodbye to email newsletters?
... in a preview of Microsoft's upcoming overhaul of its operating system, code-named Longhorn, Bill Gates noted that RSS subscription ability will be provided right on the desktop.
MarketingWonk: Microsoft Backs RSS; Move Away From Email Publishing Assured
What does this mean? Well, like the piece suggests, this will be a major challenge to email as a publishing medium. Get set for a host of new and creative uses of RSS (for example Comics by RSS) which, in my opinion, will drive Internet users to it even before Microsoft makes it easy for the masses.