Vista has a nice sidebar gadget that displays news feeds from an RSS stream. This could be a nice way to keep updated about what's going on in the XNA forums:
However, the gadget requires that feeds be added using Microsoft's Internet Explorer and currently the RSS feeds aren't properly linked into the XNA website (which is still a beta at the time of this writing).
Here's how you can get it working:
Write a new html page. In its <head> section, link to the XNA Forum's news feeds. For example:
<link
rel="alternate"
type="application/rss+xml"
title="XNA Framework Forum"
href="http://forums.xna.com/forums/rss.aspx?ForumID=56&Mode=0"
/>
</head>
Then open that page in Internet Explorer. The linked RSS streams will be selectable in Internet Explorer's RSS menu (top right, the button with the orange RSS icon). Select your feed and on the new page that opens, you'll be given the option to Subscribe to this feed.
Hint: If you want to watch multiple forums, create a new folder for all feeds you want to watch simultaneously.
Once added, you can select the RSS feeds in Vista's Feeds gadget for the sidebar!
For your convenience, I have linked to some XNA Forum feeds from this article. If you open it in full view in Internet Explorer, you should see some RSS feeds from the XNA Forums you can subscribe to!
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