Microsoft recently announced that they’ll be integrating support for RSS in the next version of Windows, currently named Longhorn.

BusinessWeek Online has a great article about the announcement:

Microsoft, which has largely been on the sidelines as RSS gained in popularity, announced plans on June 24 to bake RSS technology into the next version of its Windows operating system, dubbed Longhorn, due at the end of 2006.

Right now RSS is a relatively unfamiliar technology for most people, but as major players such as Microsoft start making it a core part of their applications, it will quickly gain in popularity and use.