During Monday's keynote at Microsoft's MIX06 conference, Bill Gates turned a few heads by admitting that they had screwed up in allowing Internet Explorer to languish for so long without an update. Duh for sure, but it's refreshing to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. Gates said that beginning with Internet Explorer 7, set to make its debut later this year, the Big Blue E will be seeing a new version every 9 to 12 months in order to keep up with the quick pace of web innovation. Gates also revealed that IE7 will include not only an RSS reader, but an "RSS subscription database," by which I assume he means a directory of popular feeds. "The amount of RSS going on," he says, "is going to skyrocket." Whatever that means.