2 hours ago, spivonious wrote

@exoteric:Wait, you want an RSS feed for email? I'm confused.

No, I'd like the same feature that the Office Outlook desktop client has: to subscribe to and view news feeds. If it's integrated into the mail reading experience it's more likely that I (or anyone else, I suspect) will follow the news of interest than if it's a separate site like Google Reader. Just a thought.

2 hours ago, spivonious wrote

@exoteric: Ah okay. I just use the RSS reader in IE.

What good does that do if you have 50 feeds? Have 50 favorites and hit them one by one?

And even if you do have lots of feeds, you'd want a well organized RSS interface, e.g. groupings/folders, stuff like that. I myself use FeedDemon.

Plus, having RSS feeds in Outlook.com means you can quickly find any previous article you've received because they are all indexed.  It also makes it very convenient to "forward" articles.  Instead of forwarding a link, your recipients receive part of the article, including images up top.

No, I'd like the same feature that the Office Outlook desktop client has: to subscribe to and view news feeds. If it's integrated into the mail reading experience it's more likely that I (or anyone else, I suspect) will follow the news of interest than if it's a separate site like Google Reader. Just a thought.

They put this in in Outlook 2007 but it was very broken and they never bothered to fix it.

It wasn't integrated with Exchange so if the particular machine with the RSS feeds was not on you will miss RSS feeds, and if more than one instance of the software has the same RSS feeds you get duplication.

The only way to get this to work properly is to put it into Exchange and their consumer email. But they have not bothered to do this since Outlook 2007, and there is nothing about this in Exchange 2013 that I can see, and I am not confident about expecting anything this decade.

I used to have that capability in Exchange. I would download RSS feeds using my outlook client into a folder. it would be synced using Exchange to my iPad and phone. So I could read, review and delete feeds on any device and have it synced. This is currently not supported as it seems.

Microsoft, please bring that capability to outlook.com (sync another type of message but emails). I believe this is a good way to consume feeds and stay on top of them across all your devices.