Internet Explorer session - a huge let down...
I concluded my time at the WinHEC last evening with a session called "Internet Explorer - Today and Tomorrow" presented by Margaret Cobb, an ISV Group Manager. Most people who decided to attend the session hoped that we would be able to find out more about Internet Explorer 7. Unfortunately, we left the room feeling like we didn't gain anything substantial.
Almost all of the session was focussed on the improvements that XP SP2 brought to IE6, what Rafael "Uxtheme" Rivera aptly described as "old news" during the Q&A session. Only a couple of slides at the end of the session looked at IE7, and even those just provided a very broad, general overview of what was planned. The claims about Firefox having a poor security track record also left a bad taste in my mouth. Tom Warren has more on this.
Dave Massy, a Senior Program Manager of the IE team, was also present at the session, but appeared on stage only at the end of the presentation for what turned out to be a rather short Q&A session. Most questions about the future of IE received either a "wait for the beta" or "can't comment at this time" response. Now I understand that it might be early in the development process to give out any concrete details, but if that is indeed the case, I feel that a session dedicated to IE, especially one entitled "Internet Explorer - Today and Tomorrow," was unnecessary. Perhaps a session at the PDC this September would have been more appropriate after a beta release in summer. All in all, most of us felt that the session was a big let-down and not at all what we expected to see and hear.
Almost all of the session was focussed on the improvements that XP SP2 brought to IE6, what Rafael "Uxtheme" Rivera aptly described as "old news" during the Q&A session. Only a couple of slides at the end of the session looked at IE7, and even those just provided a very broad, general overview of what was planned. The claims about Firefox having a poor security track record also left a bad taste in my mouth. Tom Warren has more on this.
Dave Massy, a Senior Program Manager of the IE team, was also present at the session, but appeared on stage only at the end of the presentation for what turned out to be a rather short Q&A session. Most questions about the future of IE received either a "wait for the beta" or "can't comment at this time" response. Now I understand that it might be early in the development process to give out any concrete details, but if that is indeed the case, I feel that a session dedicated to IE, especially one entitled "Internet Explorer - Today and Tomorrow," was unnecessary. Perhaps a session at the PDC this September would have been more appropriate after a beta release in summer. All in all, most of us felt that the session was a big let-down and not at all what we expected to see and hear.
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