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Microsoft IE9 team engages nerds via reddit's IAmA section
IE9 is all about being open and "making the Web a more beautiful place." In that spirit, Microsoft has done something I've never seen a browser maker do before: its IE9 product team just went on reddit, directly talking to the community and answering questions.
These are the actual developers – not PR people (not that I have anything against PR people!). The thread is huge, and as you can expect, it's mostly composed of comments by the reddit community. But when you scroll down, comments from the Microsoft team start popping up. Some of them are very technical, which is great, and it's exactly what you wouldn't normally get from a spokesperson.
The IAmA session is going on right now, so if you hurry over, you might be able to participate and get some direct answers from Microsoft for your IE9-related questions!
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Subscribe to commentssugar0Sep 29th 2010 4:29PM
There were the exactly same thing a month ago or so for firefox 4 !
KualaBeeSep 29th 2010 4:38PM
Is the reddit community always like they are in the IE9 thread? A lot of the "questions" and comments are...unfaltering reflects on reddit. The IE 9 team is very professional, staying stoic and polite while basically being called corporate tools repeatably must be hard.
lazymegamanSep 30th 2010 1:26AM
The Reddit community is...difficult to explain. The site itself is only a couple years old, but it's userbase spans from a multitude of other site's users who one day found Reddit and liked what they saw. The origins are from websites as knowledgeable as news websites, while the majority of the internet-humor-focused came from Digg's recent fiasco to 4chan users who grew out of their old home. There are people who care to learn on Reddit, as you can see from some of the comments, but a general survey of Redditors will show that they are users who have lost faith in IE, with good reasons, and they just see this as another half-baked PR scheme. Thus they treat it like a joke or a place to vent when in fact they will get downvoted because an IAmA is not the place to whine and complain.
I'm sorry if this skews your view of Reddit's userbase. There have been many times where Reddit has given back in HUGE ways (from Haiti dotations to users donating things to one another when a person is in a time of need), but as I said there are the few user groups who see this as a joke and comment with extreme skepticism of the seriousness of the IAmA and hatred for Microsoft in general.
Jordan RunningSep 29th 2010 5:05PM
Those short on time should just check the tl;dr version by ironchefpython: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dkk3l/iama_we_are_members_of_the_ie9_product_team_here/c10vo79