I like it but something about it (well, the entire metro design) feels... off. This is the sort of style I really enjoy so I maybe it might just be the feeling that's too forward for a company like Microsoft, but something about it that I can't put my finger on makes me second guess how much I like it.
Microsoft.com New Design Preview
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#22I really don't like the use of big photos like here, the new airbnb, and Bing. They are busy, space wasting and bandwidth hogs. And to my eyes they don't add anything.
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#23I don't see anything special about this new design. It's sparser than before, but I don't see anything "too Metro" about it. Just 3-4 images and text links. Is that supposed to mean it's Metro? Because there are a lot of similar sites like that on the web. Would Craiglist with bigger fonts, more space between links and 3 big images at the top become "Metro"?
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#24The simplicity of the metro design style is a great direction. It's in a way a forced simplicity which can minimize the UI clutter we have come to know from Microsoft. But reducing elements means that the few that you have should be as refined as possible, and proportion, scale and white space become more important. I think this site would look 10 times better and balanced with better sizing and spacing of everything.
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#25I really don't like the use of big photos like here, the new airbnb, and Bing. They are busy, space wasting and bandwidth hogs. And to my eyes they don't add anything.
They only waste space when you've got space to waste. I really like the way the layout changes as the screen size changes and the images become more cropped.
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#26I don't know, I just think you can take sparse so far it becomes soulless. Simple, clean design can still be emotive. This isn't. The stock art humans make this feel more like a Big Oil annual report. (And that Products menu is a little painful!) All that said, this is leaps and bounds beyond their current homepage.
Sorry I'm not understanding but really wanting to. What do you mean "more emotive"? What exactly could be done to this page to make it more "emotive"? What takes away from its "emotiveness"?
About the products page -- overall I think it looks pretty clean, but I mostly have a problem with the "More Products" category where they bunch together a big list of random products.
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#27Really nice support of different browser sizes. Resize your browser from wide to really narrow to check it out.
Any idea how that's working? I've never seen image resizing work that well!
Setting `img { max-width: 100%; }` by default and scale it to `150%` when viewport reach certain threshold (for mobile). For the former, it will beautifully scale to the containing div size, for the latter, you can set outer div to `overflow: hidden` and left/right side will be cut off giving the image a square-ish feel.
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#28I'm not particularly anti-Microsoft, but I absolutely hate this design. The text is so huge I find it painful to read, most of the page is taken up by a slideshow of what seem to be generic stock images, and I have to scroll before I can find anything useful.
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#29Broken in IE8 on Vista SP1 (divs are placing one after the other horizontally instead of in their proper places).
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#30I decided to download Movie Maker so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a Downloads menu there. I clicked "All Windows Downloads". (The site is pretty fast, BTW). I selected "Windows 7", then scrolled down until I found Movie Maker. I clicked "Get it now" and it showed me the Movie Maker page. On that page I clicked Download Now, and it started downloading!