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I don't know whether this has been discussed yet but what do you all think of the look and feel of the new design?
Many who posted at Soma's blog moaned about it (you can never satisfy everyone can you) but personally I like it. It's attractive and easy to read. I don't know yet whether it's any better in terms of finding what you want but I never really searched from within MSDN anyway. I usually just arrive at it via a generic Google search or from links from elsewhere.
As discussed in the "MSDN Views" thread below the light weight views make loading the pages more pleasant, though I had already switched to the lightweight beta that was running before the revamp.
Kevin
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I agree. Font looks like crap in FF, but okay in IE.
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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The "Classic" design was a trainwreck: heavy and slow to load, followed by additional AJAX loading. The new "lightweight" view could still stand to be a lot more light-weight, but it's a huge improvement over what they had.
I no longer dread loading MSDN pages. 
That said, there's still lots of broken links, poorly-written SDK topics, and useless or incorrect example code. 
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What really annoys me is that every couple of years, they change their URLs around, which breaks existing links in places like Raymond Chen's blog. 
--Mike--
Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
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Exactly! Even the hamsters here know how to redirect.
Could it be that MS just doesn't care? Naaaaah.
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