The Engineering 7 blog continues its trend of detailing the real issues that people deal with when it comes to Windows. We have already covered their insights, usage data, and mea culpas concerning the taskbar, as well as their musings on window management. The latest entry on the E7 blog deals with a controversial Windows issue: User Account Control. The usage data has some interesting results, to say the least.
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More importantly, what difference does all this blogging make to the actual end product? How fairs the Engineer to PHB ratio at Microsoft? And where is it going?
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i agree with you, thats my biggest fear. they had 6 years to collect statistics like this and there were plenty of opportunities ot in xp "would you liek to join the user bla bla bla program?"
with that being said, where was the thought process when making vista? but i am not mad at them for vista, they needed a flop to make them rethink things, make them go with this more open comunication model. it appears they have learned from this mistake.
so to anyone from MS who reads this. Don't rush Windows 7, dont set a date and extract features or enhancements to get there. if it gets done "when it's done" thats fine. just do it right and continue this open dialog you have going via the blog. we, the consumers, will be happy to wait for a polished product, but will be far less forgiving if the mistakes of the past are repeated. that being said, so far so good, you have my attention and i am impressed. keep it up.
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I was reading a trade journal the other day where sinofsky was talking about the expectations they built up during vista development by the transparency in the communication. People expected everything that was talked about every step of the way, and felt ripped off when they didn't get it. He said with 7 they are going to try being translucent instead of transparent, and I assume this blog is how they moved forward on that.
Don't expect anything except high level stuff from the windows team until they are almost ready to ship. All communication is going to be about process rather then progress.
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...the ideas are great and no doubt in my mind so are the people. They have fantastic charts and great presentation and are presenting a lot of data, but the question for me remains and this is because of the cynic in me...this is all great and all but are they just theorizing and thinking about these 'issues' or are they actually implementing solutions in to their product?