Again, I'm not saying that being rude or inconsiderate is ever justified. However, when trying to look at a response from a psychological point of view, you kind of have to throw out notions about what is right and wrong as these tend to taint the data. The fact that people felt like they had to keep commenting and commenting saying the same thing over and over should tell us something.
When the original beta was introduced it was not a "hey guys, what do you think of the new UI" type of announcement. It was more of a "this is the new UI, it adheres to the latest and greatest design trends, is better, prettier, more 'energetic'; you will love it!" People felt patronized so they gave their feedback in droves.
This later set the tone that the only way they're going to listen is if we bury them in feedback. Of course this is unfortunate as good feedback was probably lost in the noise.
>Also, there's tons of feedback that is being ignored:
Here are the top requests:
>Change All CAPS Menu in VS RC to VS Beta format File Edit Instead of FILE EDIT
Already beat to death in this thread, and there has been a public blog post, hardly ignored.
>Add some color to Visual Studio 11
See RC release. Also see the comments section where there are posts from VS team members, so ignored is not quite the right word. I find a certain irony in the comments asking for the 2010 theme back, when we released 2010 there was a large amount of feedback of people that hated 2010 and wanted 2008 back.
>Make .NET 4.5 work on any OS that supports 4.0
See my comment about this not being resolved. It certainly isn't being ignored though.
>Visual Studio 11 Express on Windows 7 and the ability to write non Metro C++ applications in it.
Hmmm yeah something about that link I posted to start this whole thread.
>change the new 2012 RC bowtie icon back to the smooth style
Well, suggestion I guess. I doubt that will happen (branding changes are generally made by marketing). There is no comment there so this is the first one I think you could say has 'been ignored'.
>Leave VS 2010 theme (and the theme editor extension) as an option
Well okay, unlikely to happen, re-theming VS is not a small undertaking (we have multiple UI technologies in play, it isn't as simple as declaring a CSS file) and supporting 3 (dark + light + 2010) would be a large undertaking. As for the theme editor, it is still there, in fact it was written by the guy in the office next to me. I don't think it is 'going anywhere' and I would be shocked beyond belief if it didn't support 2012.
There are many more, I guarantee you there are PMs that have read every single one of those (fun times!). Not all have comments, so I guess if that is where you are going with 'being ignored' then it is accurate, but it is a bit of a stretch considering the most popular ones have all been addressed in one form or another.
I get what you are saying about the psychology, it is funny this all started because I made a comment on how I don't read the comments because, in my experience, they are fairly vituperative. That is me, I am not here representing as an official spokesman for VS or Microsoft so please don't apply that label to me as I have gone out of my way to make it clear I am NOT such a role. If you think no one is reading them, well I doubt I could convince you otherwise, though it is clearly not true.
When the original beta was introduced it was not a "hey guys, what do you think of the new UI" type of announcement. It was more of a "this is the new UI, it adheres to the latest and greatest design trends, is better, prettier, more 'energetic'; you will love it!" People felt patronized so they gave their feedback in droves.
This later set the tone that the only way they're going to listen is if we bury them in feedback. Of course this is unfortunate as good feedback was probably lost in the noise.
Also, there's tons of feedback that is being ignored: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi... A simple "maybe" or "won't do because X" would go a long way.