I have to admit, when I read "It requires a Microsoft Live account", that was where I just went, "Oh, forget *that*!"

Seriously, most coders and developers (the kinds of people most likely to be able to isolate and describe IE bugs) are used to things like Mozilla, which have public-facing bug databases that anyone can file a bug in, without requiring anything but an email address. If Microsoft wants good feedback and bug reports, they need to remove barriers. The requirement for a Live account? That's a barrier, and a completely unnecessary one.