Jane Kim: From Inventing To Implementing IE Features
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Jane Kim, senior program manager on the Internet Explorer team, talks about how the IE team really cares and connects with the community in this episode of WM_IN. A Northwestern grad and seven year Microsoft vet, Jane discusses how the IE team has their
own voice via the team blog and how they are striving hard to engage with their customers.
As a PM on the team, Jane helps create new feature sets based on customer research and she works with the team to understand the scenarios in which customers will be utilizing those features. Listen to Jane as she tells the story of how she went about pitching one of the new IE8 features, WebSlices, to her management. (WebSlices enable users to subscribe to specially marked content on a Web page. When the content changes, the user receives a notification on the Favorites Bar.) Ritzy and Carmine meet yet another woman who was good in math as a youngster in school (Perhaps this is a pattern, people?), and they enjoyed hearing Jane talk about why she became a PM instead of a developer (Debugging is for the birds!).
As a PM on the team, Jane helps create new feature sets based on customer research and she works with the team to understand the scenarios in which customers will be utilizing those features. Listen to Jane as she tells the story of how she went about pitching one of the new IE8 features, WebSlices, to her management. (WebSlices enable users to subscribe to specially marked content on a Web page. When the content changes, the user receives a notification on the Favorites Bar.) Ritzy and Carmine meet yet another woman who was good in math as a youngster in school (Perhaps this is a pattern, people?), and they enjoyed hearing Jane talk about why she became a PM instead of a developer (Debugging is for the birds!).
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Awesome first question about firefox!
A former PM from NetDocs! Very cool, too bad it never shipped.Interesting to hear her views on computer engineering vs computer science.
It's also interesting to hear that her high school had programming.
I loved the turtle program!!!
I liked the question about how the IE team handles all of the negativity around what's happened in the past. Hearing her answer and her prespective was eye opening.
Everytime I will use web slices I'll think of Jane.
That was a thought provoking question about IE running on platforms other than windows.
One Question I would love you to ask would be: Do you have any sisters and are they in technology/programming/engineering?
"things worked in IE but didn't work in Netscape, isn't that cos you guys always innovated HTML and the platform"
I think that is a little disingenious to the Netscape guys, 1 reason that it also may have worked so well on IE and not other platforms was because IE didn't stick to strict standards and in doing so hurt how well other platforms could render stuff that had been developed with IE primarily in mind.
Interesting discussion so far though, going to watch rest of it now, also enjoyed discussion around programming in Secondary schools and the Logo program (That is the the name of the turtle thing in UK/Ireland)
C
btw has the reply highlitinh broken or something? its not worknig for me right now atleast (using ie8 beta one in ie7 mode)
Nice video, with people like Jane at Microsoft, I do have hope for the future.
C8 will get this soon
Nothing we had to code for this one; we just received a new silverlight.js and published it out, it contained a fix to the browser detection logic making FF3 work.
I haven't installed IE8 but hopefully all the work they have done on standards will make the web better for everyone. Webslices does sound like a fantastic feature.
Maybe the C9 team could even implement a webslice for individual forums posts? Sounds like an ideal application of the technology to me.
Thanks,
Kevin
Mark
So if thats IE8 most interesting feature what have the rest of the team being doing before I start ripping into all the other poor end users areas of IE!
So, what made you get in to computer science?
So, what made you get in to computer science?
Who says men don't listen?
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