Microsoft recently announced that they will be releasing a new browser version sometime this summer. The new browser version was to be released with Longhorn,
code name for their next operating system to replace Windows XP, but they decided that they needed to release it sooner than that.Many think reason is because Firefox, new popular browser, has introduced some key features that many surfers have come to expect. This probably has put pressure on Microsoft to respond with a browser with same specs.
One of these key features is tabbed browsing, which allows you to browse to multiple sites using just one window with tabs rather than opening a new window for each page.
But tabbed browsing isn't all...
I am really excited about possibility of a new feature that could change way web-surfers get their content!
Although there has been no formal announcement about this, there has been a lot of speculation about new browser including a built-in RSS reader.
An RSS what???
Let me explain...
RSS has taken off like a rocket. Blog sites love it, and every major website out there now supports it including CNN, ESPN, Yahoo, Google, and MSN.
RSS is nothing more than a format for delivering article headlines that can be read and neatly displayed by RSS readers, much like an email program displays email messages.
But so far popularity of RSS has been confined mainly to blogsites and tech-saavy individuals who know how to "tune in" to an RSS Feed. Though it is spreading like wildfire, many average web users have no idea what RSS is! (I've confirmed that by recently asking several of my friends, and none of them had ever heard of it!)
