IE7 is coming! What would you ask the Product Team?

Posted on October 13th, 2006 in: Community Marketing, Social Media, Syndication, Web Tools

Martin and I are invited to the IE7 release event next week in San Francisco. Like last time at the beta release event, we interviewed and did a podcast with the product team.

I’ve already asked several web experts to give me their questions they would want me to ask the team, (could range from IT deployment, security, user experience, standards, css, features, feeds, market share, whatever) if you’ve any specific questions, please leave a comment.

I wonder if IE7s use of feeds could replace feedreaders for common users. The tabbed feature should improve productivity. If the browser has a fully functioning ‘tagging’ feature this could be helpful within the enterprise or personal bookmarking.

More news about the release from Kevin Dean. By the way, I love the fact that Microsoft is reaching to the web and blog community for a product release. Smart, very smart.

  • http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue David Dalka

    The refresh button put back on the left side of URL bar.

    I’ve used IE7 for some time now and am amazed at how many sites aren’t compliant with it at this late date – what is the plan to help accelerate that process?

  • http://www.ddmcd.com Dennis D. McDonald

    Ask them why I should give up FireFox.

  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    David, others have been asking Usability and Experience questions too. Some folks were not sure of the different icons as they are not labeled.

    Dennis, wow, best question to date.

  • http://www.meredithdodge.com Meredith

    Ask them how they’re dealing with backward CSS compatability. For example, what about sites that use IE-only CSS hacks (universal selector, etc.) to work around bugs that are fixed in IE7, causing the hacks to mess up the layout.

  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    Thanks Merdith (Always good to hear from you)

    I’ll add this to the list. We’re going to have to prioritize now, we’re getting quite a few requests now.

  • Bess

    The way that Microsoft IE team is reaching out to the web community is very smart. If they start to do what they listen to, it would be super smart. We’ll see what IE team will go from here.

  • http://www.ddmcd.com Dennis D. McDonald

    I have to agree with Bess’ comment, and it’s not just the IE team that is “reaching out.” I’ve been tracking various Microft team blogs and am very impressed with the openness. That doesn’t mean I’ll be switching from FireFox any time soon but it does somewaht negate the “evil empire” label applied to Microsoft. (Make sure you and Martin bring back many photos, Jeremiah!)

  • http://web-strategist.com Jeremiah Owyang

    I credit Scoble with removing much of the “Evilness” from the empire. Reaching out to the community is not just a ‘nice to have’ it’s a neccesity to build products consumers actually want.

    Companies that harness Blogging and Social media have a strategic advantage.

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  • http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/ jeremiah_owyang

    David, others have been asking Usability and Experience questions too. Some folks were not sure of the different icons as they are not labeled.

    Dennis, wow, best question to date.