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> the web site [..] is routinely offered as a fun toy for a new executive to make their mark on to show how they've got exciting new visions for the company To
by logifail 3y ago
> the web site [..] is routinely offered as a fun toy for a new executive to make their mark on to show how they've got exciting new visions for the company
To be fair to Microsoft, this issue affects a great many other companies, even outside the technology space.
My personal favourite has got to be www.britishairways.com, where you can discover older and older versions of their website layered like the concentric rings of some ancient tree.
https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb/ https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb/
https://www.britishairways.com/travel/webforms/public/en_gb?eId=120001&wfpId=mmb_ticket_refund https://www.britishairways.com/travel/webforms/public/en_gb?...
and even the gloriously broken
https://www.britishairways.com/onbusiness/how.shtml https://www.britishairways.com/onbusiness/how.shtml
- OsrsNeedsf2P 3y agoWhile the British Airways link is amusing, it's much less amusing when you've been linked to a now moved documentation page, or worse, a now deleted download page.
- londons_explore 3y ago> older and older versions of their website layered like the concentric rings I like this approach. Keep old content forever, just mark it as "old" at the top of each page and archive it as a static html page at its original URL.
- londons_explore 3y ago(archiving as static html needs to be done at some point, otherwise you'll still be running php4...)
- hexane360 3y agoSee also Windows setting menus. People see this as a flaw, but I much prefer that to breaking existing functionality for the sake of a redesign. Make a new interface for simple usecases, but keep the old one around just in case.