Microsoft Has Horrible Website Design & It’s Hurting The Web.

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4 pointsmelvinram4 comments

Great catch, it's surprising how many large companies do not practice converion-oriented website design. Multivariate testing would have eliminated that site design in 15 minutes flat.

is it because he's browsing on a mac? microsoft don't show download links for software that won't work on your system.

I bet if you look at that page in IE6 there's a big ol' download button.

Exactly - environment fail.

There's no download link for IE when you're looking at the site from a Mac because...there is no IE8 for Macs available.

So where you'd think there would be a download button, there's text saying "IE8 is only available for Windows", which is correct. If you look at the site using Windows (http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3662/iedownload.jpg), there's a big ole' download link, which is exactly what the complaint is about.

You're right. It was an oversight on my end.

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