Microsoft.com is being redesigned

[Kyang]

Not impressed. A few months back I was thinking they needed to redesign, but it still doesnt look clean enough.

Seems too cluttered.

to cluttered :/

Pretty much the same sentiment here.

[Zmijutin]

I like Apples and Blackberrys pages better. This is a shame for microsoft!

[Omen1393]

Kinda because it may be more mobile-friendly than the current site?

Consider the following - more browsing is being done with non-computer devices (especially smartphones), which is part of the reason IE browser share is taking it in the shorts (after all, IE is on only two mobile platforms).

Microsoft.com has to adjust (and not just making the current site friendlier to Windows Phone, either).

It's not mobile-friendly though, I just tried to view the browser in mobile IE on WP7 and got the message that my browser wasn't supported. Anyway, regardless of the mobile friendliness of the site, I think it looks ok, although I'm not the biggest fan of Apple, their site has a much better design.

[Mr. Gibs]

It's not mobile-friendly though, I just tried to view the browser in mobile IE on WP7 and got the message that my browser wasn't supported. Anyway, regardless of the mobile friendliness of the site, I think it looks ok, although I'm not the biggest fan of Apple, their site has a much better design.

Yeh atm its restricted to only: IE8, IE9, Firefox 3.x, and Chrome 8.x

Microsoft is doing some very strict browser sniffing :/ For example, I can't access it with Chromium 10.x or Opera 11.01

[Lastwebpage]

Design is okay, but not the content.

I download and install the Messenger one time and if I really want to buy a MS product directly from MS, I can visit the shop, therefore the large block about downloads and products is too much, in my opinion.

The more important things "News" and "How to" are to small.

[ViperAFK]

I can't even see it in ANY of my browsers because of overzealous browser sniffing (ie9, opera, fx4, chrome 10) Even masking as ie or firefox in opera doesn't work :/

[~Johnny]

I can't even see it in ANY of my browsers because of overzealous browser sniffing (ie9, opera, fx4, chrome 10) Even masking as ie or firefox in opera doesn't work :/

Same here. o.O I find it slightly bizarre it's telling me to upgrade to Internet Explorer 9 when I'm actually visiting the site using the IE 9 beta

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[cmc482]

Really digging the "Metro" integration...I give it a thumbs up

[guruparan]

Does any one here knew how the scrolling effect (or animation) takes place when we click the elements (CSS or scripts)..?

Got the result http://www.learningjquery.com/2007/09/animated-scrolling-with-jquery-12 but not sure whether its exact

[reactionary007]

I really like it. I was just thinking of how ugly the current site is the other day.

[zhangm Supervisor]

I think they messed up and went overboard with putting everything in boxes that are in boxes, which are in more boxes. Just look at the bottom box in the "I want to..." box. There isn't anything in it. They added that last empty box just for the hell of it.

[Fish]

I'm really not feeling the whole "blocks of solid colour" that MS seem to be swinging toward with their UI's. I can't decide whether it's stylish or lazy; functional or cheap. Is Tango due for a comeback? :laugh:

[bjoswald]

Really don't like the dumbed-down, oversimplified look. Plus, the "happy little cloud" theme reminds me of a child's bedroom wall.

Microsoft, go back to being sophisticated and cutting edge.

[Code149]

Horrible theme, and user-friendliness.Are they obsessed with the Metro or whatever WP7 theme is? Because the new IE9 kind of borrows from it as well!

The current design looks just fine and clean, why change it?!

[gkl]

My eyes get lost in their page. And it's just not visually appealing. Not good.

[XIII]

Meh... seriously, meh... Look at the Apple website then look at MS website, nobody would think that this is a website for a company dominating the OS market....

[T M H]

A downgrade to the current design. Too much 'stuff' offered on a single page and the text layout is as bad as it is in msn.com.

[.Neo]

Can't access the website with Safari 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.6. Typical.

Changed the user agent in the Developer menu, instead. I really dislike their color use and overall the site's design really doesn't look very inviting.

[Ji@nBing]

Well for one a lot of the UI has to do with transitions and smoothness, and considering how you can add your own apps (some even with live tiles) to the homescreen (and not all of them are "plain colored squares with some text")...sure makes it a hell of a lot better, imo, than iOS.

Now I haven't used iOS in a while so I could be wrong (last one I used was the 3GS) but have they even added in "live" icons (ie ones that update, like say the weather app icon actually showing the temperate)?

Personally I can't stand animations and transitions. That's the first thing I turn off on my Windows install. iOS is all your own apps. If you don't want a grid of icons, you can just make a few folders and put your icons in there.

As far as live icons, you can't do it by default, but you can if you Jailbreak (which you should). I currently have a live clock and live weather on mine.

I'm not saying the way WP7 does it is all wrong. They have some neat ideas. I just REALLY don't like the default look. I might like it more once it's jailbroken and custom themes start coming out. Heck, I can't stand the default iOS look either. But for now there are no custom themes, so all I can judge it on is how it is now.

[Fourjays Veteran]

Going off the screenshot here, but I can't stand these stupid weird cut-off icons Microsoft keeps doing at the moment. If Windows 8 has them I'll probably stick with 7 until they move onto the next idea in 9...

Other than that it is "ok" but nothing inspiring. I think their flat coloured sections make it look a bit 90s (only a bit), although they may be fine in other applications.

[ViperAFK]

Going off the screenshot here, but I can't stand these stupid weird cut-off icons Microsoft keeps doing at the moment. If Windows 8 has them I'll probably stick with 7 until they move onto the next idea in 9...

Other than that it is "ok" but nothing inspiring. I think their flat coloured sections make it look a bit 90s (only a bit), although they may be fine in other applications.

I agree, I actually think they look nice on the zune/wp7, but for the desktop they just look stupid.