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| Time: 14:21 EST/19:21 GMT | News Source: LonghornBlogs | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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If you want us to improve, now we're getting someplace. Take a deep breath. Relax. Feel better? See, next week we're doing something different. We're asking you to help us improve Longhorn so it's an operating system that you can't hate. Why is this a massive change? Everytime we've released a version of Windows before we kept it secret. We made anyone who saw it sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement). Even many of those of you who signed NDAs weren't really given full access to the development teams and often if you were, it was too late to really help improve the product. Let me explain. I've only been a Microsoft employee for five months. Back in the good old days I was a beta tester. First with Windows 95 and NT, later with 98, ME, 2000, and XP. I never really got to work with the development teams while the software was in a “pre-beta” state. I never had a weblog where I could tell them “I hate the UI” years before the software will ship. Yeah, we had secret newsgroups back in the good old days. Some of us even got invited to meet with the development teams. But, never did Microsoft ask me to write on my public weblog all of its dirty laundry so that it could improve. Next week, that's exactly what we're asking for. Tear into Longhorn and tell us what you think. We're giving our developers open access to a very recent build of Longhorn. Just days old at this point. And we want you to hate it. Openly. On your weblog. Tell us what's wrong with it. What can be improved about it. |
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at Thursday, October 23, 2003 03:42:35 PM |
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Good read. I'll spend more time on it when I get home tonight.
I like Scoble... he understands reality. In order to sell products MS has to make better products. |
| #2 By 7797 (63.76.44.252) at Thursday, October 23, 2003 05:02:48 PM |
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"Why is this a massive change? Everytime we've released a version of Windows before we kept it secret. We made anyone who saw it sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement). Even many of those of you who signed NDAs weren't really given full access to the development teams and often if you were, it was too late to really help improve the product."
MS is learning things from the open source approach. More of the opensource guys should try to learn some of the things MS does well too. |
| #3 By 116 (24.173.79.86) at Thursday, October 23, 2003 05:32:31 PM |
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This longhornblogs site is awesome. Its on my favorites now for sites I frequent throughout the day.
Peace, RA |
| #4 By 2459 (24.175.137.164) at Thursday, October 23, 2003 07:19:21 PM |
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RA, if you don't already, you can check out Scoble's regular blog for more frequent updates.
http://scoble.weblogs.com Raymond Chen's blog is also cool for those that are interested in how Windows (and DOS) features came about and why certain things work the way they do. http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/raymondc/ |
| #5 By 10022 (24.169.28.128) at Thursday, October 23, 2003 08:23:25 PM |
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I'll tell them right now what i hate: windows that dont remeber user chosen size and position!
I DONT CARE IF THE DEVELOPER THINKS IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE SAME SIZE OR IN THE SAME PLACE!! I REALLY DONT! Also, I hpe that the new Outlook 2003 full size GAL search window (cant think of the name right now) is the shape of the future!! I dont have a 640x480 resolution any more so dont design every thing to fit on it! Also, when the TaskBar is set to the left hand side, could we keep the Start button on the bottom!!! (although this probably wont matter any more with Longhorn) Eleminating unneed scroll bars that appear in windows becuase the window isnt 3 more pixles long or tall would be great! This post was edited by kevn84 on Thursday, October 23, 2003 at 20:23. |
