Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday December 7, 2007 @08:03AM from the a-little-clarity-is-required dept.

eldavojohn writes "Shortly following the frustrations of IE7, Gates claims that he is unaware that IE8 Secrecy has been alienating developers. Ten influential bloggers met with Bill on Tuesday and asked Gates questions about why they are no longer receiving information on IE. From Molly Holzschlag's blog: 'Something seems to have changed, where there is no messaging now for the last six months to a year going out on the IE team. They seem to have lost the transparency that they had. This conversation [between Web developers and the IE team] seems to have been pretty much shut down, and I'm very concerned as to why that is.' To which Bill replied: 'I'll have to ask [IE general manager] Dean [Hachamovitch] what the hell is going on, I mean, we're not, there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE.'"

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Re:In a perfect world by coolGuyZak · 2007-12-07 08:48 · Score: 5, Interesting

If anything, the bugs in IE contribute to the economy, as more money is required to move through the system to account for them.

While superficially correct, this is a case of the broken window fallacy. The money spent working around IE bugs could be spent better elsewhere (for instance, QA, usability, etc.).