Take Microsoft’s New RSS Aggregator for a Spin

September 11, 2006 · 10 comments

Microsoft has released the beta for a spiffy looking RSS Aggregator codenamed Max. The Redmond folks have been doing some tech community-friendly things recently with the Windows Live Writer Beta blogging tool and now this. PC users can download Max Beta 1 here. Let me know what you think.

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1 Kevin September 11, 2006 at 8:50 pm

Any screenshots? I want to see if it’s worth the time.

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2 Paul Stamatiou September 11, 2006 at 9:01 pm
3 Zach Wilt September 11, 2006 at 10:41 pm

No parallels for Stammy?

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4 Paul Stamatiou September 11, 2006 at 10:43 pm

I would have posted screenies but I’m in a bind for the next few days.. too much work. http://flickr.com/photos/pauls/241187208/

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5 Chris Morrell September 11, 2006 at 11:41 pm

Paul, thanks for the heads up. Just another good reason to keep a few Windows boxes around.
Review of Microsoft’s Max

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6 David Brunelle September 12, 2006 at 1:01 am

Rather than retype my thoughts, I’ll point you towards a post I wrote on Max. It also includes (an admittedly poor quality) video of the program.

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7 Scott G September 12, 2006 at 9:08 am

It is an unusual pairing, photos and rss. It doesn’t excel at either

The RSS side of things is nice, it is the best looking piece of RSS software I have used but the moment you are tracking more than 10 feeds it becomes clunky to move around. You can add, move and remove feeds but no folders, also no opml which is a nuisance.

The photo sharing stuff is okay. No editing but the organisation side is pretty nice – will spend a bit more time with it

Basically it looks spiffy but it really needs to be two apps – both of which require a little tweaking. I won’t be switching over to it anytime soon

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