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Introducing the IE team at the India Development Center (IDC)

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The IE IDC Team

I am Puneet Arora and I’m a Program Manager on the IE team at Microsoft’s India Development Center (IDC).  The team started just 6 months ago and has just the right mix of fresh engineering graduates full of zeal, people with prior experience and some old time Microsoft veterans.  The focus for the IDC team is making IE great for IT professionals.  For IE7 for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, the team has been working on some great features –

  • Group Policy - making more than 100 brand new settings available as policies in IE7.  This work empowers the IT admins to allow them to customize IE7 for enterprise users.

  • Compatibility Logging - when a security feature blocks a behavior, IE7 can be configured to write that failure to a log. Customers can identify issues that they might see due to new IE7 security features.

  • Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) - This will be an opt-in feature which will help us in getting the next level of feedback on how our users actually use our product, without getting any personally identifiable information. It will help us in further improving our features and tracking customer satisfaction.

  • IEAK 7 (Internet Explorer Administration Kit) - IEAK allows deployment, customization & management of IE packages for corporations.

 - Puneet

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Microsoft Outsourcing at its best!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Uuuu, scoop. That one gal over on the bottom right is clearly working on IE8 :P (cause I'm trusting everyone can count to 7).

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    "...has just the right mix of fresh engineering graduates full of zeal, people with prior experience and some old time Microsoft veterans"

    I'm curious, how many fresh engineering graduates does the Redmond IE team have? Any?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Please can we have the ability to block file downloads, customisable for each zone, in group policy by:

    Detected MIME
    File Extension
    Request MIME
    Reply MIME

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Redmond IE has at least 5 new grads that I know of.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Why use 4 different ways to determine which filetype to block for downloading. One seems enough. The thing that matters is what people actualy can't download. IE might use a combination of ways to determine that but that is not very relevent as an option setting.

    Why would you have different settings on those 4 options to block downloading.

    What I would like is some predifined roles that you can use in stead of just deafault settings. If you have to manage more than 100 settings it would be easier if you have a choice of roles which determine most or even all settings.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    IE7 = Seven more years of being behind in web standards.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    US developers don't worry, you can get jobs at McDonald's any time.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The compatability logging feature is a great idea, and one that'll make admin's lives MUCH easier.

    In particular, it should really help when trying to figure out what to add to trusted sites to make some hideously complex and maze-like web app sites (full of frames loading from other servers, JavaScript, and so on) actually work on a machine with a secured copy of IE.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    (SPANISH) PORQUE NO HACEN UN EQUIPO DE IE7 DEVELOPER IN LIMA - PERU ??
    WTF !!!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    "Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) - This will be an opt-in feature which will help us in getting the next level of feedback on how our users actually use our product, without getting any personally identifiable information. It will help us in further improving our features and tracking customer satisfaction."
    ---

    I know what would be more effective - BUGZILLA. Seriously, how can you improve IE if the users can't report and track bugs?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    > By having an IE team located at IDC, we can hire from an <b>incredible local</b> talent pool.

    You said it :)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Bugzilla is an awesome idea, much better than the 'feedback' link in the help menu (which points to the wrong place apparently, cos the IE feedback team got my email instead of the IE7 team.

    but yeah, bugzilla would be an awesome addition to /all/ microsoft applications.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Yes it is at Hyderabad in India.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003

    good observation spongy :D - good looking gal though

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    2 uuuuuu........
    чем тебе индусы-то не угодили? нормальные люди - и мозги есть, и тараканов в них немного;-)
    PS. я тоже не юзаю IE.

    2 IE Team - Hi! Make it better than Opera! :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    В мемориз, стоило на РСДН ссылку запостить - и на тебе бобруйск, животные... По поводу индусов - нормальные ребята, гы-гы-гы. Скомандовали им - показать семь на пальцах - и вах, какая фото получилась! гы-гы.

    Кстати, второй справа в верхнем ряду - срочно проверьте личное дело его. Кажется у него неустовные отношения с девушками, - проверьте по комментариям - если коментариев много в коде - значит так и есть! А то иш - рога уже наставил.

    Четвертый справа, в нижнем ряду - сомнительный тип, на фото у него шнурки развязаны - так ходят только линуксоиды! Да и красный огонь в глазах - нехорошо, недосмотрели.

    From Russion with Love.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Who is that man with two left hands?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    А девушка в нижнем правом углу, так вообще восемь пальцев показывает, что бы это могло значить ? Она видимо знает что-то, чего не знают остальные

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    H.A.W.N, you are joking right? I mean come on seriously, I don't think you could have picked a less relevent topic if you tried. Two left hands? What?
    I'm not kidding, but why don't people adhere to the simple rule in life, that if you don't have anything nice or constructive to say, then don't say anything!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    'm getting ready to use firefox :)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Well, now I know why my IE crashes seven times a day.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    What was that joke Leno made when NASA announced layoffs?

    Pretty soon I will have a real rocket scientist asking if I want fries with that.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Keep it up team.

    here it is a exclusive forum for IE, www.ielog.com.

    Be the first to post.

    Enjoy!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    It's simply not true that you can get a 5 yrs experience engineer for a $10K annual salary.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Microsoft is wayyy behind in web-based programs like IE. I dont know the "Authentic" requirement which is "obsessive"ly present now a days in each and everything from MS. I bought a notebook about a month ago with "Authentic" OS and other softwares installed on it. I had tried installing IE 7.0 beta trial version on my notebook but failed repeatedly as the "authenticity" of my OS could not be determined inspite of me providing the necessary details. way to go MS!!! after all, who would you like to cater to and how do u intend to get a feedback?
    Yeah, I should agree that Mozilla and Netscape are gaining popularity while MS is lagging behind.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Well John, you might not be knowing the Business Potential in India for Microsoft or for that matter, any other IT firm. Stop having myopic views on things beyond your comprehension.
    You might not have known the dedication and out-of-the-way commitment, which asians can offer in completion of a given job.
    Microsoft knows that there is a vast business potential in Asia, especially in India and China. Thus it has setup development centers based on its requirements.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Опять потерли? Это у них называется демократией?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    а почему нету варианта шесть пальцев на левой + один на правой?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The reality is that IE7 is very good and does a good job living up to the W3C standards and if you look at any tracking sites, Firefox/Mozilla programs are so far behind IE in use that it's not funny. IE is still 90% of all browsers and you guys really seem to not know how to configure your systems because IE7 doesn't "crash 7 times a day" if you have it decently configured and know what you're doing. If you don't like IE, don't use it. If you don't like Windows, use *NIX, but pay close attention to security websites and vulnerability websites because *NIX is very insecure, very holey, very unstable (in general), and is only used by companies because it is cheap. You should also note that Microsoft and many other companies have complained that there is a shortage of good CS people here, so they are going elsewhere. Any CS person who is good can find a job in the US, so if you are complaining about not having a job, why don't you learn your trade...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Indusi jgut:)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I like to make burgers and shakes and I like Indians.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Эти руки никогда не писали багов?

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    You thing we are going to forgive the mistake of Ie??
    forgive any bug , viruses and crash It caused us?
    never!

    drop out that foolish project
    drop out ie

    use lynx
    leave windows

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The girl holding up 8 fingers is extremely cute, but she's not conforming to standards. She's forgiven, though, since she works on the IE team.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Панислась!!!....

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    June 12, 2006
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