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Microsoft Listens; But to Whom?
November 12, 2004 | 20 Comments
From an interview with Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia’s managing director:
I don’t believe it is a true statement that IE doesn’t have the features that our customers want. We take user feedback very seriously. If you have that feedback, then you should feed it back to us because we will feed it to the product team.
Hmmm, I thought we already had. The interview contains some hilarious quotes, especially this one:
There are plenty of products out there with features we don’t have. We have plenty of features that our customers don’t use.
Sounds like a winning combo to me.
Then there’s this fine piece of marketing from the IE team. Wow, it’s just like watching Fox news during the US election — fair and unbiased.
Permalink for “Microsoft Listens; But to Whom?”Westciv Template Competition
November 3, 2004 | 7 Comments
Westciv have just announced the results of their CSS template competition. While my entry didn’t take out any of the three categories it was entered in (’no-images’, ‘print’ and ‘handheld’) it did score me a free copy of their Style Master software! I knew I should have bought John a drink after the WSG meeting 
. To be honest, I’ve never tried it; but if it increases my efficiency while creating new designs I’ll become a vocal supporter of their product. I’d like to take this opportunity to publicly thank John and Maxine and wish them all the best with the upcoming release of Style Master 4 — the fact that they are an Australian company pushing the uptake of standards is all the more reason for me to wish them success!