Microsoft today released a photosharing/news reader desktop application named Max. A photosharing and news reader app? Yes. Why? I don’t know. It does those two things and while the photosharing functions looks cool, I still haven’t found what I am really supposed to do with it. Now news readers I understand, but this one is probably the worst I have seen. It looks gorgeous, as TechCruch says, but those looks have no function. I agree that it is pretty, but that doesn’t make it a good piece of software.
This program is as bare-bones as it gets. An RSS reader that doesn’t know OPML? Give me a break. Am I supposed to enter 100+ feeds one by one? With the pitifull feed discovery that Max offers?
Also, the looks waste more screen estate than any other program I have seen lately. I can display 10x as much info in FeedDemon than in this abomination of a feed reader.
Those programmers working on news clients can sleep well tonight. Every, and I mean every, news reader that I have tried was better than this. Few readers take 54mb to download, by the way.
tags: rss, microsoft, microsoft+max, max, feed+reader, opml, newsgator
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