Earlier today the Windows Blogger himself, Brandon LeBlanc, posted about recent changes that have been made to the primary Windows blog site.
Previously the home to several Windows hardware and software related blogs, the new Windows Blog site now hosts just five key blogs:
Blogging Windows
We have merged the Windows Experience Blog, Windows Phone Blog, and Extreme Windows Blog into Blogging Windows. For most of you, this blog will have all the stuff you’re interested such as announcements like the Windows 8.1 Update and Windows Phone 8.1 Update. It will also be where we publish blog posts featuring tips and new apps and games for both Windows and Windows Phone. We will also publish blog posts about new devices from partners there too.
Exploring IE
…the Internet Explorer Team will continue to publish about amazing IE experiences like Catan Anytime on the Exploring IE blog.
Windows for IT Pros – posts relevant to IT Pros out in the field.
Windows For Your Business
We’ll continue to publish blog posts relevant to business customers on the Windows for your Business blog.
Building Apps for Windows
We have the Building Apps for Windows blog for developers building apps for Windows
A key list of enhancements that are available, or will be soon, on the new site include:
The blog site is now hosted on Microsoft Azure
Filtering of blog content by category (PC, Phone, Tablet) and RSS you can subscribe to in your favorite reader
Bing powered blog search
Social media links for sharing blog posts
Twitter widget to show latest tweets from @WindowsBlog
Threaded comments
Mandatory sign in with a Microsoft account to leave comments
They have also localized the Blogging Windows blog for Latin America, Taiwan, Poland, Italy, Germany and Russia.
Here are RSS links to all the localized version of the Blogging Windows site:
Windows Blog – RSS for Posts
Das Windows Erlebnis Blog (in Deutsch) – RSS for Posts
台灣 Windows 官方部落格 – RSS for Posts
El blog de Windows para América Latina – RSS for Posts
Il blog di Windows per l’Italia – RSS for Posts
Блог Windows Россия – RSS for Posts
Blog polskiego zespołu Windows – RSS for Posts
Here are the RSS links for the other sites that are centralized at this new portal:
Building Apps for Windows – RSS for Posts
Windows For Your Business – RSS for Posts
Windows for IT Pros – RSS for Posts
Exploring IE – RSS for Posts
I sure do love seeing all this RSS in use. I thought I once heard somewhere that RSS was dead – maybe I was mistaken!