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Robert Scoble wants to be the relay between users/developers and the IE team.

Noble task, but be aware Scoble about the comments you are going to receive.

IE suffer so much to be abandoned by Microsoft that it's quite incredible that a team still exist in Microsoft. And apparently they work... on something.

The problem is that apparently nobody knows exactly on what. Robert claims that they want to listen, that they want our feedback on how to improve the beast.

Well, it's time, because so many things need to be done. And I am not sure that Scoble give an objective start here.
OK it's his own opinion expressed on his site, but something like this hurt a  lot:

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Another thing that the commenters generally aren't thinking of is "how to get adoption." I keep pointing out that if we fixed the CSS and PNG issues, you still wouldn't be able to use those for years. Why? Cause consumers (and companies) really don't care about those issues and won't download a new version just cause you fixed one or two issues.

As a good example, Dean gave me a few companies with tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of desktops, that still are using IE 5.5, or older. The fear of upgrading is something that the team is working hard on too. But, that means slowing down a bit, and releasing a browser that really is compelling for people to use.
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Well I don't know where Dean get this info, but IE 5.5 is so buggy that I can't believe people can still use it. Anyway, I disagree here because a lot of stats around the world show that IE 6 is the  most common browser actually.
And for the objectivity, well there Robert zero !

I just finished to read some of the comments on this post, and a lot of developers request W3C compliance. This is the basic thing to do.
After that I believe a couple of nice new things, like a better favorites organizer, some clean up in the GUI should be the priority.

But the question remains the same: are we sure they want to listen what we want ?