Microsoft has hired Niall Kennedy from Technorati to work on the Microsoft Live.com platform. Live.com is an RSS and Atom-based aggregator that will become the default home page for MS Internet Exploder 7.0 and the new Windows Vista OS. Hopefully that will be easy to change.

Niall offers his philosophy on his blog.

Here it is:

Live.com will be the first feed syndication experience for hundreds of millions of users who would love to add more content to their page, connect with friends, and take control of the flow of information in ways geeks have for years. I do not believe we have even begun to tap into the power of feeds as a platform and the possibilities that exist if we mine this data, connect users, and add new layers of personalization and social sharing. These are just some of the reasons I am excited to build something new and continue to change how the world can access new information as it happens.

I want RSS and Atom syndication technologies to be available anywhere, integrated as the background technology delivering new information when and where it matters most. Read your own personalized top news stories while waiting for the bus. Track your friends’ Halo results anywhere. Pull the latest information off the corporate intranet and into an authoring application. Load your own niche content channel into your DVR. Update the art on your walls. I geek out on this stuff and could go on and on.

The blog post actually reminds me of a Bill Gates speech I heard about 20 years ago (FYI - Bill Gates already has the technology that changes the art on the walls in his likeside supermansion in Washington state. He has plenty of pics to project, too, as he owns Corbis).

This sounds truly great, as long as it manages to eschew the traditional Microsoft bloated and sloppily coded crap that promotes Microsoft’s own agenda at the expense of the user. But I guess that’s just wishful thinking.

Stay tuned.

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