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sarcle
16th January 2006, 04:10 AM
Man, there are some pissed off people at Microsoft right now. I can understand why. This waiting and waiting and excuses and excuses are rediculous. I must admit I have been peppering it with my own tongue-lashing's. But I believe the tide has offically turned from, okay we will wait, to, we better hear something now.

They better do something quickly about these postings as well, they are very public. I noticed two days ago there was a link on Microsofts homepage to the blog and it has since been removed.

Here are a few of the postings. Enertaining as hell. Feel free to pitch in there if you like. Link (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/12/512232.aspx#comments)
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>< (http://blogs.msdn.com/Profile.aspx?UserID=1001)

That's all fine and dandy, but the reality of the situation is much more severe.

Meanwhile, 504,000 more people downloaded Firefox, since this same time, yesterday.

Tomorrow another 500,000 and the next day another 500,000, and the next.

These numbers are nothing to sneeze at. It's like losing Denver yesterday, Seattle Today, Washington DC the next, so on and so one.

But let's sit here and chat about this feature that we should have implemented, in a browser we should have created, three years ago.

Microsoft is single handedly tightening their own diamond noose. Google with the release of their "pack" is kicking the living S#@# out of them, and microsoft is taking it like CHUMPS!


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Adam (http://blogs.msdn.com/Profile.aspx?UserID=1001)

Are you people serious? FireFox and the 500lb Gorrilia just took a dump on Redmond and are dropping h-bombs across the globe. It's time for Bill to finally address this situation and send out the zookeeper.

There is no other place to ask these questions and we keep getting ignored. Do you think the population will want to touch IE7 after seeing FireFox and having to put up with IE6 for so long? Soon every browser globally will see Google.


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Steve G (http://blogs.msdn.com/Profile.aspx?UserID=1001)


I concur with many on this comment thread, MS, its time to really wake up, and realize that you need to ship. Not next year, or next quarter, or next month, or next week. You need to ship in Q1 2005. Since this isn't possible, you are bleeding out, every hour, of every day, until you do. Most sadly, when you do ship, you will still be massively short on the expectations. I too, hope that you have already laid out IE7.5 or IE 8 on the roadmap, and plan to ship it, BEFORE Q1 2007!!!! If not, you will have officially lost the browser wars for good.
I don't want to be rude, but there is only one thing to say.

SHIP THE ******* PRODUCT ALREADY!

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stoopid customer (http://blogs.msdn.com/Profile.aspx?UserID=1001)
EricLaw [MSFT] wrote:
"So called "individual contributor" PMs have remarkable freedom in our designs."

Give the doublespeak a rest. Can you guys just answer the questions that your customers are asking?

1) How do we provide beta feedback?
2) Did you hear us about the Menu bar placement?
3) What standards are in, and which are out?
4) Has the Beta been pushed to Q2?
5) Is IE7 to be released before Vista or not?


There is a bunch more there.