Microsoft.com New Design Preview • Hacker News Board

mintplant wrote: post #16

uvTwitch wrote: post #5

It's taken a long while, but Michaelsoft are finally getting their shit together. Well Done!

Sorry, Michaelsoft? Was that an intentional inside joke?

I just find this really funny, and refer to MS as such: http://brog.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/michaelso...

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

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Post by cdcarter » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 1:11 AM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #37

zyb09 wrote: post #9

Shouldn't the menu be all capitalized?

Words in all caps are harder to read.

It's a reference to the new VS menu design.

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Post by bjg » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 1:14 AM UTC

toddmorey wrote: post #20

I 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.

You should use the feedback button on the right!

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Post by thematt » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 1:15 AM UTC

levesque wrote: post #44

TamDenholm wrote: post #41

Is it just me or does the guy in the last slide look like hes using a photoshopped macbook air/pro?

I don't see why they would do that, it would be beyond stupid.

It's unlikely Microsoft themselves even created the site, it was most likely contracted out to a design firm.

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Post by politician » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 1:24 AM UTC

levesque wrote: post #44

TamDenholm wrote: post #41

Is it just me or does the guy in the last slide look like hes using a photoshopped macbook air/pro?

I don't see why they would do that, it would be beyond stupid.

I grabbed the image and tossed it into Paint.NET; there does appear to be some artifact in the center of the laptop lid that could possibly (to my unskilled eye) be (mis)interpreted as the leaf on the top of the Apple logo. However, I don't know enough about this stuff to say anything more than that someone should take a look.

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Post by Lisa2000 » Fri, Jun 29, 2012, 1:25 AM UTC

I am completely underwhelmed beyond the responsiveness, which is nice. Feels very yesterday. One click thru to products page, and it's more underwhelming. Shows lack of vision for the company. "Managing home and homework just got easier." Really? This is the best their designers and copywriters can show us?