Over the past year and a half the Product Feedback Center has successfully connected customers and Microsoft development teams in a discussion around several products including Visual Studio, the .NET Framework, and SQL Server. The positive response from customers and product teams drives demand to extend this to all Microsoft products and to enable a more robust system that integrates product feedback with other channels such as surveys, downloads, web forums and announcements. The Microsoft Connect site is chartered with meeting this demand.


Microsoft Connect (connect.microsoft.com) is building the next version of the Product Feedback Center and integrating it with other tools to provide a better, more consistent and more unified feedback experience. All existing users and feedback in the MSDN Product Feedback Center will be migrated to the new system next year. In the meanwhile, a small pilot will be conducted with a set of PFC users on the new system. If you would like to participate in the pilot, please send email in that regard via this blog.


The commitment 100% Microsoft responsiveness will continue as we improve the underlying technology and over time we hope to fix a higher and higher percentage of customer reported issues. Many have been waiting for enhancements to the Product Feedback Center for a long time and with great anticipation customers and product teams alike look forward to the progress in this space.

Thanks,

Marie Hagman