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All of Microsoft's sites are a mess of redirects. I swear they do it just to fuck with uMatrix users.
by swebs 7y ago
All of Microsoft's sites are a mess of redirects. I swear they do it just to fuck with uMatrix users.
- ChrisSD 7y agoThat's in the best case. It's worse when a link gets broken or redirects to an irrelevant page. They seem to break a large chunk of links every year or so.
- tialaramex 7y agoYup. Nobody at Microsoft who actually believes in the Web seems to have authority to override when some new executive decides microsoft.com ought to be a Wiki now, or a web forum, or blog site, and throws away all the stuff people have bookmarked, and all the stuff that conscientious employees linked making their documents useful. Half of the HTTP "Too many redirects, gave up" errors I've ever seen in my whole life were from microsoft.com These days I have less reason to visit microsoft.com, but I recommend looking for (and retaining when you find them) URLs in the form https://aka.ms/ https://aka.ms/ which seems to be curated by somebody who actually respects the idea of URLs and so end up pointing to wherever the content is now, even years after it has become a Wiki of a Blog Post about a KB article with a Word document in it. I'm assuming it's manually maintained, since I can't imagine any possible automatic system would keep up with the nonsense at microsoft.com, but so far it has worked.