The Microsoft.com Communities Team have been busy developing an RSS (and Atom) based Feed Directory.
So what is it?
Well, let's think of this way. Microsoft.com is one HUGE site. For all intents and purposes the site can be considered as a multitude / network of hundreds of sites with common UI(s) and platform(s). I can't remember how many 'pages' of content there are but it's safe to say we're talking millions (the MSDN Library alone is gigantic).
So, with all this content, how can customers locate what is of interest and then get updated as and when that stuff gets updated? RSS right? Well, RSS is good once you've located the content you want to subscribe to, but you need to find the feeds first - and trawling through the millions of pages for the RSS you're looking for isn't really...practical. The search works ok, but it's not feed orientated. So, this is where the Microsoft Feeds Directory comes in.
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