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Microsoft Introduces Public Database for Reporting Bugs in Internet ExplorerTMCnet Contributing Editor Microsoft has reportedly set up a public database so that Internet Explorer users can report bugs in the new version of the Web browser.
Users will have to sign up for a passport account on the Microsoft (News - Alert) Connect Web site to post or view messages about bugs. Microsoft is currently accepting bug posts for Internet Explorer 7 and future versions. Microsoft decided to come up with the public database after users conveyed the need for it. “Many customers have asked us about having a better way to enter IE bugs,” said Al Billings, a member of the IE project team, in a Microsoft blog on Friday. Billings said in the blog that many users were asking why Microsoft didn’t have “Bugzilla, like Firefox or other groups do?” Microsoft has posted a best practices guideline for posting messages. The company wants to limit access to bug posts by marking them confidential. ------ Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. |