It took me around a day to notice... but after I installed IE8 beta, all my RSS feeds from my "Common Feed List" stopped updating.
As a result, a few things have happened/I have noticed several things:
- Outlook 2007's RSS folder deletion sucks. I created a "temp" folder, and dragged all my old folders into the temp folder, then deleted the whole temp folder. Result of design by committee: Your product sucks at very simple tasks because not all use cases end up being included.
- RSS feeds are background noise. And after a day or so, I "miss" the noise. Makes me wonder if I should be spending more time on important things instead of reading all this "news". RSS feeds are a form of noise pollution in my life.
- I manually re-added the 8 or so feeds that I actually need, into Outlook 2007. Reddit and Digg are both cut, due to the poor signal to noise ratio.
- IE8 opens a lot more connections - and loads sites faster. Also mentioned here: http://www.ajaxperformance.com/2008/03/07/ie8-the-performance-implications/
- Outlook 2007's RSS functionality is... decent... but still leaves much to be desired. I have 3 machines, each with Outlook on them against my Exchange server. This means that most of my RSS feeds come in THREE times over. Who decided THAT would be a good idea? The committee did.