Back to my low expectations

When I wrote that the fact that IE7 and Outlook 2007 shared the data source for RSS feeds, and adding a feed in one would create a folder in the other to view the feed was cool, I was assuming it worked. Maybe in Vista it works, but in my experience with Windows XP it doesn't work at all like the documentation says it should. For example, Outlook's RSS information says this:

Whenever you see , or a similar icon, click that icon. Outlook 2007 will automatically subscribe you to that feed.

That's not at all my experience. First, when I go to the RSS Feeds folder, the page with the "sample feeds" doesn't work. All of those RSS icons point to the same page that doesn't exist (http://officebeta.iponet.net/client/). When I finally found the correct page there and click the RSS icon, it didn't subscribe me to the feed, quite the contrary. It proceeded to open the feed in IE7. Once that page opened I was offered the option, in IE, to subscribe to the feed. So I did.

Again, the official documentation then says:

When you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Office Outlook 2007, you can add RSS Feeds from either program as well as view the feeds in either program.

I was prompted to save it to a "feeds" folder. That added it to my IE feeds. When I'm in IE and use the show feeds option, sure enough there it is. Nothing has changed at all in Outlook.

Something isn't working correctly. I don't know what it is.

Update: I found that I could use the Import/Export function to import the feeds from the system feeds list, which is where IE apparently saves them. That explains why nothing showed up in Outlook, but it's not exactly the promise of "subscribe in IE or Outlook and read them in either" is it?


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