Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy

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.'"

Comments

No Secret

[Anonymous Coward]

there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE.

"We're not doing anything."

Re:In a perfect world

[Kelson]

Higher insurance rates / costs from accidents don't damage the economy, they actually contribute to it. You may not be happy paying $100 more to your insurance that you could put elsewhere, but its certainly not hurting the economy at all. If anything, the bugs in IE contribute to the economy, as more money is required to move through the system to account for them.

Sounds like the broken window fallacy to me. This doesn't add any money to the system unless the victims are all misers. At best, it simply diverts it from one path to another.

Re:In a perfect world

[zsouthboy]

Try again - it doesn't "help" the economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

Don't forget the IE 6/7 split. M$ Explorer Sank.

[Erris]

If you consider the 50/50 split, you end up with some sites where no single version of IE matches FF. Oh yeah, that's a developer site and it kind of shows you where this is all going.