Microsoft's site

[BizTalk]

Just wondering how many of you like the way microsoft website and by that i mean the way it looks.

[Zxian]

I think that it's a fairly well made site. Most of the things you need you can find through the search function, and they've got a lot of documentation for their products there.

Overall: 9/10

[gamehead200]

I liked it when it first came out!

http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/....microsoft.com/

[MCT]

its fugly

[Martin Zugec]

Compared to past website I can see a lot of approvement

[army20]

who remember the first hotmail website ???

[prathapml]

I liked it when it first came out!

http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/....microsoft.com/

haha.... far simpler design - any browser would have accessed it

But NOoooo, how can IE dominate the world if IE is not the best browser to browse MS sites?

As for how http://www.microsoft.com looks and functions, it never has bothered me for the reason I say later below. I surf with images off, for the most part. So a simple page design with proper alt-tags used on all images is the most appealing site for me - and MS.com is not one for simplicity.

I always do this for whatever I needed to find on MS.com:

g site:microsoft.com "search term"

Type that in the address-bar of Opera (or into IE, if you have a certain regtweak applied), and what I want is on the search results (it brings up top X number of google finds).

[prathapml]

who remember the first hotmail website ???

The Web archive does, for sure.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961221030339/www.hotmail.com/

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[soldier1st]

i use opera to view it and it's perfectly fine,they got it set up pretty good

[SiMoNsAyS]

i personally hate it because everytime i got there is to update/fix something

ps: soldier1st what a f****d amount of text on your sig and mine was bigger??

Edited January 10, 2005 by SiMoNsAyS

[indianarchie]

its not bad..wat i like abt the site is that they have a huge amount of documentation and backup for their software...and just wondering if tht's coz their software is so bad that they need the extra stuff for it lol

[Incroyable HULK]

It a good website. I have designed about 10 websites in the last 4 years and I can tell it's a good one. Nice Graphic design, easy navigation, Huge amount of content, segmentation of products (smaller websites on particular products line) etc...

+ good search engine

[Jeremy]

I dispise M$. I like their OS when it's nLited, but their website is a bit of an extreme representation of how highly they think of themselves, despite their lack of understanding about security. Some things hidden within their site that I have stumbled upon give me a bit of new knowledge, but I voted No.