Microsoft New (Bugged?) Website
Microsoft launches their new website yesterday (Dec, 14). I got the news from Digg and eager to see it.
While loading and its blue-ish background and black topbar revealed, I thought hey.. it looks better than the old one. But then.. ugh, where is the main image? Is it supposed to be left empty? But even after the browser stops loading, all displayed in my Firefox is this:
Is it because I open it in Firefox? How can… ah, nevermind. So, then I open it in Internet Explorer 6. But what I got is even worse! (Tho’ the main pic is loaded) :P
Whoa.. is it just me? Is it because I’m still using SP1? Come on, I haven’t heard a website that requires SP2 to run smoothly.. :P How could it be? Why… ah, whatever lah! :)
(FYI, even as I write this entry I still hit the reload button over and over…:))
Yet, (still confusing) I click one of the link on the right. Hey.. what’s with that window? Being also a graphic designer I always give extra attention to whitespaces and alignments. To me, it’s not even placed proportionally.
Well, I wonder what happened if I click one of the thumbs? Voila.. surprisingly it opens the contents with the old design! Half-done and they already launch the website? Come on… :)
Still confused, I hit the browser’s back button to browse for other contents. What the…? Hey, where’s that clumsily placed small window before? It loads back to the main page! (Still, with the missing pics)
Well.. Microsoft’s new website is indeed full of surprises with lots of ‘oohs’, ‘aahs’, ‘heys’ and ‘wows’! :P
Updates:
- For unknown reasons, it looks better now in IE. (Though in my Firefox nothing’s changed)
- Looks like some other visitors experienced different problems with Microsoft’s new site. Read it at Digg.
