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by freejack 4810 days ago
It might just be me, I found that initial scrolling transition to be brutally distracting.

And I wanted to give the article a proper chance, so I read down the page and stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error:

"We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found."

And then after a few seconds, that page redirected me automatically to a Bing search for this string:

"en us news stories 88acres 88 acres how microsoft quietly built the city of the future chapter 2 aspx"

At least Bing had the good sense to return the original article as the first result.

2 comments

The navigation was so poorly executed that I didn't even realize there was more than one page! I admire people experimenting, but this feels like taking the idea 80% of the way there, and just kind of leaving things unrefined/unusable.
Hm, I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. I can change pages fine, but when I try and click on the link it does a "download microsoft" Bing search...
> stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error

> I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page.

So... first time you two have used a Microsoft product then?

Well, in case you're wondering, pretty much all Miscrosoft software is a stolen design wrapped around a buggy core when first released.

Thanks for your insightful comment and help on the problem! I'll make sure to remember that about Microsoft software.