Their servers crash from the expectable load when windows 7 is released for download, they can't seem to streamline or synergise any of their web properties, and frankly most of it is simply bad or broken. Just yesterday I sent an application to them and got a server fault after having spent 30 minutes filling in a badly designed form. I sent them a mail and haven't heard anything back. Not that I expected to.
Even their main site, microsoft.com, is broken. The menu is off by a few pixels. Even in IE.
And why should they get the web better than any other bunch of middle-aged business guys? Microsoft is a desktop software company, the web isn't in their DNA. The web is a threat to kill their primary revenue streams!
Goes to show that realizing there is a lot of opportunity somewhere and throwing an obscene amount of money at it is not enough to succeed.
Microsoft's existing management shouldn't get the web, but they should be smart enough to hire people that do. Why is running, say, Django or Rails or any other web framework so difficult on Windows?
Their servers crash from the expectable load when windows 7 is released for download, they can't seem to streamline or synergise any of their web properties, and frankly most of it is simply bad or broken. Just yesterday I sent an application to them and got a server fault after having spent 30 minutes filling in a badly designed form. I sent them a mail and haven't heard anything back. Not that I expected to.
Even their main site, microsoft.com, is broken. The menu is off by a few pixels. Even in IE.