The Minbar for Applications
Perhaps I'm getting spoiled, but I've gotten used to some basic features in any application I used nowadays and I'm really surprised by any new application that doesn't have these:
- Automatic, in-place upgrades: why make the user work so hard to see your hard work?
- Dock to systray: no app is so important that I shouldn't be able to get some screen real estate back when I need it
- E-mail invitations: if I'm excited about your app, make it easy for me to share that excitement
- Roam my data: preferences, settings, etc. I have more than one machine. So do a lot of folks. Make it easy to keep those in sync
- Connect to my data: don't make me re-enter stuff that's already in obvious places like Facebook, Yahoo/GMail/Hotmail, etc. If I have to build one more list of "friends" ...
- Don't ever ever lose my data: wow, this still happens waay too often
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About Sean Olson
Sean Olson is the Group Program Manager for the Office Communications Server product at Microsoft. His team is responsible for all engineering aspects of conferencing, instant messaging, presence, and voice within the server product. He has over 10 years experience in the area of real time communications and voice over IP and is an industry expert in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standardized by the IETF. Since joining Microsoft in 2002, he has delivered five releases of the Office Communications Server product line working on everything from protocols, to security, to performance.
