For the last couple of weeks Lora has been trying to get me to build a website where people can post their suggestions, quirks, and flaws for Vista/Windows 7. I’ve been dragging my feet because this is one of those things I think Microsoft should be doing, such as on Channel9 or 10 or whatever.
Well, it looks like neither Microsoft nor I have to worry about spending the weekend coding up a site, because Long Zheng has coded up such a site. It’s called the Windows UX Taskforce.
By all means, if there’s something in Windows–particularly the UI experience–get on over to Long’s site and add your suggestion/bug/irritation or vote up or down suggestions others have made. Let’s all work together to make Windows even better.
This is a great opportunity for Tablet PC, touch, and mobile folks to get their message out for fixing those little bugs in Journal or to make requests to better integrate ink into Windows Mail and so on. I think it’s even fair game to ask here for ink to finally be integrated into Messenger for the Mac. It’s a bummer to not be able to ink back and forth with someone on a Mac.
I would make one suggestion for users of the Taskforce. There needs to be better tagging of the items. If something is in the Windows Shell, then tag it as Windows Shell. If it’s in Journal, then tag it as Journal. Otherwise, it’s going to be a pain to sort the contents when it gets large.
This is great to see Long take the initiate here. I will repeat, though, that I think Microsoft should take over this database. Come on Channel9. OK. Even if you don’t want to take on the one week or so of work to launch it, then how about putting a prominent link on your sites to The Windows UX Taskforce service?