Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer Feedback Website

Reports of bugs and suggestion will be reviewed by the IE team

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006; 01:31 AM

Microsoft has decided to offer a public way for people to provide the company with feedback or make product suggestions.  The result is a system that is searchable and can benefit from the active community that IE  already has.  The Internet Explorer Feedback site is available at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=136.

According to an official Microsoft blog, the feedback site is for IE7 and future versions of IE. Feedback for the current version under development will be taken through the site. Once IE7 has shipped, it will be used to report issues with IE7 to examine for following versions. As Beta builds become available, it is a mechanism to report issues seen in them. The site should not be used to report issues with earlier versions of IE such as IE5.5 or IE6.

Reports of bugs and suggestion will be reviewed by the IE team.  The teams expects a significant number of feedback, especially in the first months of site operation.  Because of the volume of incoming bugs, any truly time sensitive bugs should go through the normal security channels.

In order to use the IE bug database, users need a Microsoft Passport account.  The site's concept is similar to Firefox's Bugzilla.