Dean Hachamovitch - How do you make a product that hundreds of millions of people use?

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Aug 16th, 2004 @ 4:59 PM

"Make a list" Dean Hachamovitch says. He's the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team.

But, it's a little more involved than that. Listen to Dean talk about some of the things his team has to worry about as it designs and develops the next version of Internet Explorer.

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JohnSands
John Sands

There's an Internet Explorer team?

HellSnoopy

JohnSands wrote:

There's an Internet Explorer team?

LoL. Indeed , it don't fell like it. Instead of dreaming and talking about what is the future of tabs , x , y and z , etc is.. why not code the present ? Wink

rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty

So this what happens when a product becomes planetary? I choose the illusion of intimacy over pleasing every province in the imperium. Ah, but I am not here to answer to shareholders.

I am the one sitting on the couch trying to potato-quarterback the IE-game. Here at half-time it's all about FireFox. And this is coming from a guy who built his own IE-based MSHTML editor.

nightski

Hmm...

Well at least we know that their jobs are *hard*.

Dean seems like a very intelligent guy, but it would be nice to hear how they are tackling these hard issues instead of just listing them.

Right now IE XPSP2 is really showing age and really does need an update.

If they are able to tackle the complex issues that he mentioned, then why is it so hard to just add say tabbed browsing?

I am a die hard MS fan, but this is one area that the open source crowd is really beating MS. Mozilla Firebird is really impressive given its age - you have to admit.

Any chance we could get a video on the future of IE?

Gorecki
Say hello to Puck!

pardon my saying but i'm missing the point where he actually talks about IE dev.

ThomasAesir

If Dean is so worried about security then why doesn't he move IE development to the .Net framework? If Quake II can be ported to .Net then Microsoft shouldn't have any excuses.

HellSnoopy

I want a job at the IE team , being paid for thinking about the problems and not resolving them. Wink

Well you could say IE for longhorn is going to be marvelous because they will add all those incredible features, but it's light years away.
They did improve IE with SP2 ? sure , but not what it should be with all this time gap between the latest IE release.

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USAF1

I understand the "basics" that Dean outlines but, pardon me, shouldn't those already be in place? The basics are not a new phenomenon. Dean mentions them as if he is working on a version 1.0 product.

I agree with others that the team should make some incremental releases that include easy features like tabbed browsing, etc. while they figure out a way to be all things to all people.

Jeremy W.
that blogging guy

The question was: How do you make a product that hundreds of millions of people use?

Of course it sounds like a version 1.0 discussion. It's a version 1.0 question.