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Does the font used actually matter? In my opinion I quite like how it looks, regardless of the font used.

I think it looks pretty damned good, until my eyes fall on to that godawful background image, urgh.

I'm not complaining about the use of Arial, it's that trendy Really Massive Sans Serif Headline on the landing page look: they're trying to make Node/RoR/etc. devs feel at home.

I think this is kind of a good thing for M$ since it really seemed like they were having a hard time "getting it" for a while there.

Windows Phone 7 seems cool, and there are rumours about Apple using Azure and AWS for iCloud, and now stuff like this. New hobbyist and start-up interest is exactly what M$ needs, so I'm glad they're doing things like this. Hopefully they have the infrastructure and support to match.

I think it's just supposed to fit in with other current Microsoft designs (i.e. "Metro-style"). It will use Segoe UI if installed (i.e. on Windows).

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