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I know bashing Microsoft is oh-so-tempting, but can you at least try discussing the actual article here?

by alyx 13y ago

cmelbye 13y ago
But some people can't even read the "actual article" because the navigation is so broken.
- enraged_camel 13y ago
  This, pretty much. It's so distracting that the article is unreadable.
- Maarten88 13y ago
  I was reading it on a Surface tablet using Metro-IE10 and thought the design and navigation were very slick. It works very well on it, every page starts with a fullscreen image, scrolling down the text appears while the image fades, at the bottom of the page the pagination links appear. I looked at the NY Times project article and that did not work as well on Surface. They were undoubtedly inspired by it, maybe they optimized the design of this article as a showcase for their own tablet.
danso 13y ago
I was going to agree with you but the execution of this article is quite awful. The worst part of it is how there was no reason for this to be subdivided into pages. An average page in the Microsoft story has fewer than 700 words. In the NYT's Snowfall, the average chapter is 3,000+ words. The NYT has an incentive to increase pageviews with pagination. Microsoft is paginating their press releases.
- dspeyer 13y ago
  Thanks. I didn't realize there were more pages. I just thought it was a very short and fluffy article.
  - subpixel 13y ago
    What? There's more than just one page? I know MS is a favorite target, but this honestly looks like it was designed by an intern. More importantly, it reads like a jewelry advertorial in an in-flight magazine.
    - infinitone 13y ago
      Is anyone able to watch the videos to the end? They seem to stop mid way for me- all of them. And I have a pretty fast connection.
      - navs 13y ago
        They also die when I attempt to go fullscreen. Gave up.
  - mimiflynn 13y ago
    Same here, now I have to got back to the story. Funny I don't remember seeing a way to get to another page...
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pc86 13y ago
Is it not relevant that they've copied a design straight from the NY Times?

I know bashing Microsoft is oh-so-tempting, but can you at least try discussing the actual article here?

by alyx 13y ago

I know bashing Microsoft is oh-so-tempting, but can you at least try discussing the actual article here?

cmelbye 13y ago

But some people can't even read the "actual article" because the navigation is so broken.

enraged_camel 13y ago
This, pretty much. It's so distracting that the article is unreadable.
Maarten88 13y ago
I was reading it on a Surface tablet using Metro-IE10 and thought the design and navigation were very slick. It works very well on it, every page starts with a fullscreen image, scrolling down the text appears while the image fades, at the bottom of the page the pagination links appear. I looked at the NY Times project article and that did not work as well on Surface. They were undoubtedly inspired by it, maybe they optimized the design of this article as a showcase for their own tablet.

danso 13y ago

I was going to agree with you but the execution of this article is quite awful. The worst part of it is how there was no reason for this to be subdivided into pages. An average page in the Microsoft story has fewer than 700 words. In the NYT's Snowfall, the average chapter is 3,000+ words. The NYT has an incentive to increase pageviews with pagination. Microsoft is paginating their press releases.

dspeyer 13y ago
Thanks. I didn't realize there were more pages. I just thought it was a very short and fluffy article.
- subpixel 13y ago
  What? There's more than just one page? I know MS is a favorite target, but this honestly looks like it was designed by an intern. More importantly, it reads like a jewelry advertorial in an in-flight magazine.
  - infinitone 13y ago
    Is anyone able to watch the videos to the end? They seem to stop mid way for me- all of them. And I have a pretty fast connection.
    - navs 13y ago
      They also die when I attempt to go fullscreen. Gave up.
- mimiflynn 13y ago
  Same here, now I have to got back to the story. Funny I don't remember seeing a way to get to another page...

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pc86 13y ago

Is it not relevant that they've copied a design straight from the NY Times?