Nine months is very aggressive, but 18 months is too long.

Our goal is to encourage everyone to try the product. We think that free phone support is a good way to encourage a lot of people who might otherwise shy away from trying beta software.

People seem to be OK with what we’re doing.

The XML code has been transformed into a nice view over the feed.

It’s not just about IE, [but] about IE and Windows enabling a very easy experience to have subscriptions. The subscription experience [is] exposed at a very high level inside the browser.

The great thing about putting [subscriptions] in the browser is there is a common feed list.

[The preview is] a release for everyone involved in making the Internet work [so that] before we release a consumer-focused beta, we want to make sure anyone with a Web site can look at the...

Security is a critical issue for all browsers. Microsoft incorporates security concerns into the design phase on all of its products, and with Internet Explorer 7, we paid particular attention to addressing not only known...