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Microsoft is giving a demo of Longhorn and showing off, for the first time in public, the new Internet Explorer 7.0. Of course, it has an RSS reader/aggrigator built in - but that's not the cool part. The cool part is that the RSS system is part of Longhorn, so any Windows application has access to the data. This means that you don't even need to use IE to use the feeds and you can use 3rd party programs that can take advantage of the feeds. Why is that cool? Keep reading...

The first real IE 7 screenshot? It's showing an RSS feed. Where's the tabs?

The first demo they subscribed to a calendar of events, and if the times, dates, or locations change, your calendar is automatically updated.

The next demo is a screensaver that uses a photoblog RSS feed for the photos and captions.

The final demo showed off "lists" - and the example they used involved subscribing to friends' Amazon wishlists, and showed how you can sort and view the data using a sample DHTML-built application.

Finally they announced that their new standards would be released through Creative Commons, to which Larry Lessig had a video announcment saying how pleased he was with Microsoft in doin this.

The new standard - Windows RSS Platform Architecural Overview - Simple List Extensions specification - will be published on the IE Blog soon and Scoble uploaded an hour long (!) video to Channel 9.

The Internet connection is flooded with 300 people all trying to update their blogs at once so I don't have the photos just yet, but they are uploading.

Scoble is live-blogging Gnomedex too.