One of the reasons for my switching to Windows was that I was hoping I’d be able to find a decent, free, RSS reader like NetNewsWire Lite (Though I’ve got the full version of it these days). FeedDemon sounds promising, but doesn’t seem to have a free version. I could, of course, run the now abandoned (though seemingly still for sale) Sauce Reader, which was quite usable back in the day, but it seems silly to commit to something which is no longer being developed. I might try out SharpReader but their website doesn’t make me confident about the likely level of polish.

I don’t suppose I’m expecting any better suggestions (though that would be great), but it seems really strange that there’s not an obvious choice. I once heard someone say that one of the big reasons for the popularity of web apps is that so many windows users have been made afraid of installing new software (particularly when it’s free and internet related). I was sceptical at the time (I suspect it’s more about unix developers not having any halfway decent GUI toolkit), but perhaps there is in fact something to it.

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