The list of large companies offering their customers RSS feeds: Amazon.com, Yahoo, Reuters, BBC, Washington Post, eBay, Time Magazine... and the list goes on and on.  RSS has hit critical mass.

Here's where I see this going... the next version of Outlook and Outlook Express will have built-in RSS newsreaders. The next version of Internet Explorer will have a built in XSLT transformation for the RSS XML so that it appears readable to users. The next version of MS Office will be able to save documents to RSS format.

Think of how the HTML format has been supported by Microsoft tools and technologies. RSS should follow the same path.

The problem with Atom is that it does not present me with anything new. RSS seems to provide me with everything I need in terms of RSS publishing and/or reading. What has Atom got to offer?

I think I will remove my Atom feed for now. I don't want to contribute to the pollution of a clean standard.