Microsoft started opening IE

By creating an error database dedicated to the beta version of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft for the first time encourages users to send public feedback about this next version of the browser.

Microsoft also acknowledges that regular customers wonder why the company does not create a publicly available database of IE bugs - something that has become standard practice in open source projects, such as projects. Mozilla's Firefox browser.

' Many of our customers have asked for a better way of announcing IE errors or why we don't have a Bugzilla like Firefox or other companies did? We often don't have a proper answer to this problem , 'Al Billings - a member of the IE project - said.

' After a lot of discussion in the IE developers' team, we have decided that users have rights and we have to create a public way for users to send feedback or make suggestions. about the application , 'Billings said.

Users can access IE error database via Microsoft Connect website (http://connect.microsoft.com/). To access this site users need to have a Microsoft Passport account. Here the user only publishes bugs and suggestions to IE 7.

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