James Governor notes that MS is moving more quickly on RSS/syndication than Google is - and that they are being more transparent about it as well:

What is more, this post from Richard McManus is spot on in pointing out that MS is arguably ahead of Google when it comes to using RSS. Google's support for RSS is pretty lame so far, and unlike Microsoft, Google doesn't even have an enterprise business to support and defend. Where do i go to search blogs? Not Google but technorati or blogdigger. Google news doesn't support RSS. I can post blogs to RSS through MSN Spaces just as easily as i can use Blogger, and can find neat hacks in that regard.. Noone has built a vendor supported third party aggregator on top of Gmail (as far as i know), while Newsgator remains a favourite of RSS-hungry Outlook users. And you know what--MS employees actually usefully blog, which is more than you can say for our friends at the Googleplex.