By the foot

Scoble, today:

Here's an example of some of the negative feedback I'm seeing on blogs today: Greg Dean isn't happy with MSN Search (toolbar team) and gives a few good suggestions to that team. He wants a longer text field to type in.

It also demonstrates a reality of software development. We can't do everything in a version 1.0 product.

Ah, I can hear the software engineers at Microsoft right now.... "Do you know how much it costs to add one pixel to a text entry box? Do you?"

Seriously though, how hard is it to change the size parameter of the input field, and then create a new, bigger background graphic? (Answer: Not hard. Certainly less than one hour of work. The hardest part is figuring out what the new version number should be.)