
We can't live with email; we can't live without it. Indispensable to most businesses today, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2084376,00.asp?kc=EWNAVEMNL011707EOAD">email can be a millstone around the necks</A> of office workers and the corporate IT professionals who serve them. Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical email messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network pipes. "RSS" stands for several terms, the most widely accepted of which is Really Simple Syndication. There are a large number of RSS readers--browser utilities, for the most part, free--that retrieve and present RSS feeds to PC users. RSS made its first appearance seven years ago in Netscape Communications' Netscape Communicator browser and has since attracted a big following among tech-savvy consumers. The technology is poised for a surge in enterprise adoption in 2007 as Microsoft implements more robust support for RSS in its Outlook email client and SharePoint Server and IBM's Lotus division bolsters RSS support in Notes Domino 8, due in mid-2007.