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

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

This, pretty much. It's so distracting that the article is unreadable.

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.

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.

Thanks.

I didn't realize there were more pages. I just thought it was a very short and fluffy article.

Same here, now I have to got back to the story. Funny I don't remember seeing a way to get to another page...

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.

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.

They also die when I attempt to go fullscreen. Gave up.

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

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