We love to bitch and complain about the tools we use everyday. It’s like it is almost a requirement for those of us that spend a lot of time with computers and more recently the web. We are a lot quicker to point out; sometimes extremely nastily, failings than we are to compliment when something works well. Nowhere is this more evident that when it comes to Microsoft products.
It never fails that when Microsoft releases an upgrade or a new product it is automatically put up against the wall and the firing squad marches out ready to lay waste to their newest victim. Even when we try and do something constructive to try and suggest improvements the voices of the anti Microsoft contingent seem to rise above those trying to really help.
So it was really nice to hear that Long Zheng from istartedsomething.com was willing to step into the fray when word of Windows 7 started to trickle out. He did this first with a post that asked users to list things with Vista that needed to be addressed in Win7. This idea proved to be extremely popular – well too popular as he was soon inundated with a flood of good suggestions. When he realized that this was going to be as popular as it was and that it would entail a lot of manual work he decided to step up his game.
As a result he developed the Windows UX Taskforce site which is a self contained community site built around the idea of letting users enter in feedback; with documentation, of things that need to be fix for Win7 if it is indeed using the Vista codebase. Besides entering new submissions for the database users can vote on submissions and comment on them.
My hat goes off to Long on this endeavor and I think it has to be a great contribution to the whole Windows community. I really hope that as Long says that the developers at Microsoft are really paying attention this time because this is in my estimation the most valuable resource they have – the real Windows community.
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