Windows 8 In Depth

Subscribing to a Feed

Simply viewing a site’s RSS feed is only marginally useful. To get more out of a feed, you need to subscribe to it, which tells Internet Explorer to check the feed for new content automatically and download that content to your computer, which makes the feed part of what Microsoft calls the RSS Feed Store. (The default update schedule is once per day.) You then use the Feeds list in the Favorites Center to view the content of your subscribed feeds (see “Reading Feeds,” next).

To subscribe to a feed, follow these steps:

1. Display the feed you want to subscribe to.

2. Click the Subscribe to This Feed link. The Subscribe to This Feed dialog box appears.

3. The Name text box displays the title of the feed, which is the text ...