From Scoble, this is a great conversation. Pre-blogs, pre-conversation, this sort of story would have festered as rumor and conspiracy.
Either way you look at it, the outcome is positive. The bloggers help keep MS honest, but also help MS communicate back to the world about what they’re up to. Let’s continue to see more openness like this.
Salient passage:
There’s a report, on the Register, that IE 7 doesn’t work with the Google or Yahoo toolbars. I just talked with Dean Hachamovitch, the guy who runs the IE team, and he says that they tested with the Google and Yahoo toolbar and it was running on their machines (he just sent me screen captures of his personal machine running IE 7 with both the Google and Yahoo toolbar installed) and they in no way are trying to block the Google toolbar from working. He says that he commits to everyone to getting the toolbar to work and if there’s something that isn’t working the IE team wants to know about it so they can fix it.
