Whatever happened to IE team?

April 25, 2006 By

As seen on Digg: Whatever Happened to the IE 6 Team?

Actually, that's a bit sensationalism. It's an interview with Michael Wallent, former head of the IE team (now runs the Windows Presentation Foundation team).

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  • http://spaces.msn.com/volatilechar Dileepa P

    Get real with the System Requirements please!!!

    Please have a look at this.
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/about/sysreqs/default.mspx

    Computer with a 486/66-MHz processor or higher (Pentium processor recommended)

    32 MB of RAM minimum

    I can’t stop laughing.

    Why can’t Microsoft be a bit more REAL about the requirements. IE7 may technically ‘run’ under the specified minimum requirements. But, among all the browers out there, IE7 is the biggest memory hog. Even Firefox doesn’t come close. Watch the Virtual memory… not just the RAM consumed by IE7. Just drags the entire system down if you open 5 to 8 tabs on a 256 MB system. (I am using a laptop provided by my company… so, can’t upgrade unless the company decides to!).

    And, IE7 still opens each link in a separate window! I checked all the settings and they seem to be fine – indicates that IE7 should open a new tab in the current window. (Try opening multiple alerts in WLMsgr…). This is Beta 2… the basic stuff should work right.

  • http://spaces.msn.com/volatilechar Dileepa P

    Get real with the System Requirements please!!!

    Please have a look at this.
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/about/sysreqs/default.mspx

    Computer with a 486/66-MHz processor or higher (Pentium processor recommended)

    32 MB of RAM minimum

    I can’t stop laughing.

    Why can’t Microsoft be a bit more REAL about the requirements. IE7 may technically ‘run’ under the specified minimum requirements. But, among all the browers out there, IE7 is the biggest memory hog. Even Firefox doesn’t come close. Watch the Virtual memory… not just the RAM consumed by IE7. Just drags the entire system down if you open 5 to 8 tabs on a 256 MB system. (I am using a laptop provided by my company… so, can’t upgrade unless the company decides to!).

    And, IE7 still opens each link in a separate window! I checked all the settings and they seem to be fine – indicates that IE7 should open a new tab in the current window. (Try opening multiple alerts in WLMsgr…). This is Beta 2… the basic stuff should work right.

  • Mike

    Hmmm, Scoble can you ask Michael Wallent’s “DHTML, that was me” if he has ever heard about a guy called Scott Isaacs? That sounds arrogant, selfish the way he put himself in front of all of this. I have to say I stopped watching the video there. This is the part of Microsoft I want to go rot elsewhere.

  • Mike

    Hmmm, Scoble can you ask Michael Wallent’s “DHTML, that was me” if he has ever heard about a guy called Scott Isaacs? That sounds arrogant, selfish the way he put himself in front of all of this. I have to say I stopped watching the video there. This is the part of Microsoft I want to go rot elsewhere.

  • Michael Wallent

    Hi Mike – thats a good question, and I’m sorry if you got the wrong impression. Actually, the question was “DHTML Dude?”, he was referring to my column, “DHTML Dude” – (one archived here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndude/html/dude07122000.asp) – which I wrote for a couple of years. Scott, Christian Fortini, Rod Chavez, Adam Bosworth, and a bunch of other super talented folks worked on, thought of, and invented DHTML. I worked with them, and it was my pleasure to.

  • http://Microsoft Michael Wallent

    Hi Mike – thats a good question, and I’m sorry if you got the wrong impression. Actually, the question was “DHTML Dude?”, he was referring to my column, “DHTML Dude” – (one archived here http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndude/html/dude07122000.asp) – which I wrote for a couple of years. Scott, Christian Fortini, Rod Chavez, Adam Bosworth, and a bunch of other super talented folks worked on, thought of, and invented DHTML. I worked with them, and it was my pleasure to.