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Ask HN: Why Microsoft website pictures look blurry, jagged, low-res?

5 points by behnamoh 3y ago

I've noticed this in the past few months. Have a look at this for instance: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/copilotpro or the homepage! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/

mattl 3y ago
What browser are you using? What hardware? What OS?
- behnamoh 3y ago
  Chrome and Safari on macOS.
  - mattl 3y ago
    Yeah, looking on Safari myself I can see the images are pretty blurry. https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/image/microsoftcorp/Highlight-Slim-Multi-Canvas-Copilot-001:VP4-1399x600 https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/image/microsoftcorp/... I guess their CDN is doing some heavy crunching of the images to keep page speeds fast.
solardev 3y ago
It's probably their overzealous image optimization CDN. You can try lying to it about your viewport size and resolution and all that.
- behnamoh 3y ago
  What can I do to make the images look nice (original resolution)?
  - solardev 3y ago
    Maybe write and inject a user script to replace all their images with higher resolution parameters from their CDN? You can try complaining to Microsoft too but I doubt they'd care.
BandButcher 3y ago
Haha yea on edge and ff mobile it doesn't look crisp, but not sure if its actually the base image itself. The copilot image looks super jagged, like a bad photoshop. not sure how much effort ms is putting into images, maybe they are ai generated now??