The blog has been quiet this past week, as between the new job and the new book (Understanding CardSpace), I've been incredibly busy. The next release of InfoCenter has been pushed, it will now be out on Sept. 18th.  Now that IE7 has gone to a release candidate, I'm strongly investigating taking a dependency on the RSS functionality provided by it and have it in the next release (hence the long interval). 

By leveraging the work those folks have done there, there are three direct benefits - (a) by going with platform componetns for RSS, it removes a disconnect between the  InfoCenter stored feeds and the RSS platform stored feeds, (b) the code underneath the RSS functionality has a dedicated group of developers/testers behind it, and (c) it will allow me to focus on some of the next-gen functionality much sooner (i.e. information dvr, community, etc.)

If anyone is strongly opposed to taking a dependency on IE, I'd like to hear your thoughts. 

Also, I'm investigating moving parts of this over to CodePlex as a shared source effort to have InfoCenter move along regardless of my personal schedule.  Is this something you'd be interested in participating in? If so, let me know (and let me know what your coding background is in)

Cheers,

Marc