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- coreyb, on 10/12/2007, -12/+73I was totally expecting to see aqua buttons on the top of their page... :P Looks nice though.
- joshk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42Works in Firefox as well. The conspiracy theorists were having a fit when the beta for the new homepage came out and it didn't work in FF.
- andysimmons, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36Same with lynx.
- rowanjl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28What strange characters? O_o All I see are a hyphen, an equals sign and a pipe character, followed by his name... if thats strange, well... it's not so... I don't get it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33At last they've made the step out of the 1990's.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Damn, it's about time! =/
- Alegis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26Welcome to my ~=:{|blocklist|}:=~
- profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I'd just like to say thank you and commend you for saying " 'Vista' theme" and not "Web 2.0" or anything like that.
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Has anybody done a view source on it? Holy crap I'd hate to be that developer....
- geocar, on 10/12/2007, -23/+39This incorporates all the things I hate the most about any web site: fixed sizes everywhere (width of viewable region, height of lines), images for text, nonreactive links (stay the same color when clicked, or previously viewed), mystery meat navigation (are those things on the right links? what about those things on the left?), gibberish alt-text, background images for borders.
This is a great example of how /not/ to make a website folks. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16"Looks better, they also upgraded their media player to have more of a vista feel."
I'll be happy when they update the Windows Update site (the only part of the Microsoft Website that I use!) - teh1337d0t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Haven't they been using that in their commercials for a few years now?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Your strange ASCII characters do not frighten me, mgkwho.
- Doomhammer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Is it just me, or is the mouse rollover thing at the bottom really, really laggy?
And when you click something like "Download Center" and it pops up over the top of the page... Their (I assume, anyway) image doesn't go all the way to the bottom of the page, only to the bottom of the screen...
I'm seeing that pretty much all the mouse rollovers are ridiculously laggy for me, for some reason...
And how things pop up in "new windows" when you click on them, via the navigation bar at the right... That's just plain annoying.
This website is really hard to navigate... - tadunne, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Aqua is lick-able, Glass is edible?!, but it craps up our gums..
- pjleonhardt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18No.. I think you're pretty much alone on that one.
- an7agonist, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19I really like the new design.
Did Microsoft hire new web designers lately? The last few redesigns went pretty well. - Miril, on 10/12/2007, -12/+24Looks better, they also upgraded their media player to have more of a vista feel.
- slsanity, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19strike three
-=$%#*&#~slsanity - meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13That's been around for at least a year or two. To paraphrase Simon Pegg :
"Microsoft - Where the hell do you think you're going?" - thedonga, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13poor layout...
wasted space on sides, bad navigation
all it looks like is they tried to mimic a blog. - paulmdx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"Gotta love sites that assume everyone browses on the same size monitor, or doesn't resize their browser window"
You mean like Digg? - svenjick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Ok it looks better. Much nicer that previous.
But moving the main navigation to the right is ... bad (I'll stay polite). It can work in several conditions, but if you have a main navigation and a secondary navigation (like it is the case here) then you gotta make sure the main one sticks out (typically by having one horizontal, and the other vertical): shame.
But I must admit, that when you navigate to the other pages, the navigation works (the other pages look awful) - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Horrible, horrible source code. Must have used Frontpage
- ReiToei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Uhhh... why is the "All Microsoft Sites" menu expandable? What is the point of not having it expanded? It doesn't "make room" for anything else.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Wow its even slower than before. Nice job on the sluggish javascript attempt at a Web 2.0 style content area. Oh and the Frontpage looking tabled up code all crunched together is an especially nice touch. The old site performed much faster.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They probably build their own, like a lot of companies.
- cybrjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If you read the "About the new website" link near the top, you'd see that the new site is based on SharePoint Services 2007. Yes, Microsoft's content management system ...
- dfu23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Thanks to Microsoft for continuing to prove that they do not play along with W3C standards:
Validation of Markup:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen%2Fus%2Fdefault.aspx
Validation of CSS:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen%2Fus%2Fdefault.aspx
And the page renders in quirks mode ... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Has anybody done a view source on it? Holy crap I'd hate to be that developer...."
They probably just use a script that removes all the formatting. Makes people not want to bother with copying the site design. - teh1337d0t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Looks good, but doesn't really fit in since the rest of the site still looks the same. No more horrible jpeg compression too!
- terrab0t, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I could be wrong, but they may have to keep the Windows update site as unchanged as possible to avoid making it useless to people with older versions of windows or IE. Even the visuals could be risky to play with.
I'm sure they could change things there, but it wouldn't be worth the trouble of making sure it still works with all of the older base installs that use it as a necessity. - cbiz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Anbody notice the "Welcome To The Social".
I want to know who is bringing the punch and my fat Aunt Mary?
Talk about old fashioned copy... - bwishey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10It seems overly simple from Microsoft.
I think they're trying too hard to make it look elegant and sleek but to me it just looks too empty. I don't really like it that much. - imsoclever, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Looks nice(r). I'm all for Microsoft bashing, but this definitely looks better than it did.
edit:
I just tried mousing over the links on the bottom left. Holy ***** slow. - willcc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Almost everyone is bieng dugg down, a lot of M$ haters here?
- MemoryDump, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7glad to see the new site seems to work nicely in Firefox!
- smartssa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It does. I found something fun though, if you're click crazy and keep clicking things in the nav menu it will eventually break the "pretty" site and send you to a plain listing of whatever nav item you last clicked.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dclarke/323142898/ - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The right toolbar looks like it was an afterthought. I think the deadspace around it was badly placed. Other than that, I think this is a definite improvement.
BTW, what's with the weird "M" logo in their icon.ico? - terrab0t, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10@geocar:
I'm with you on most of those points. The first thing I noticed was what happens when you make your browser's text size larger. It doesn't quite explode like some sites do, but a lot of things spill out of their containers. - wozley, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Looks okay to me. I was getting tired of the old one.
- miker71, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm surprised (pleasantly) that I didn't get prompted to sign up with Passport, what with Microsoft betting the company on .NET and all that.
The website is bland. And there was no immediately obvious way to find the Technet help forums. Not that normal people can even be bothered to help themselves with a keyword search anyway. - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For the other old-timers here on Digg (and noobs with a sense of history) I present Microsoft's first web site: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.htm
No matter how horrible you think the new site is, you can't deny Microsoft has come a LONG way. Incidentally the site predates tables--the main navigation was one HUGE image map. It took forever to load even at a blazing 14.4kbs. - Gottschalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Start the anti-Microsoft festivities!
Who did they copy?
What did they screw up?
How could they have made it better?
All whiny complaints now 50% off. WOW. - CrookedAsterisk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Is that sarcasm?
- Owange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4There's only a paragraph there? Am I missing something? Hey wait a second.. you're trying to DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG!!
shady! - SEMW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Passport's been split up from .NET and merged with the Windows Live set of services (its new names is Windows Live ID). .NET's now just a programming framework -- which makes a lot more sense, since Passport didn't really have a great deal to do with the programming framework in the first place.
- chumleyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The navigation and blue on blue text colours don't pass accessibility guidelines... by quite a long way (eg. their contrast score is 270 when 500 is a pass) and they spent a year on this?
- timing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you have a point here! digg!
- bradkovach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wonder if they shared any web developer's least favorite part of development:
Getting it to look right in IE when it looks great in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Camino, Konqueror...
Probably. -
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