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MICROSOFT.com is coming under fire for being one of the slowest websites in the land.
The strokers of beards and Volish nay-sayers have been claiming that reason is Windows Server 2008. They claim this on the very safe assumption that since Microsoft installed it, vole.com has been running like a condemned man with his legs cut off on his way to his own execution.
Information Weak’s Dave Methven has been playing around with the site and thinks that if Server 2008 is the problem, it is not the only problem,
The MSDN site requires 69 HTTP requests, a total of 419 Kbytes of files and takes 12 seconds to load the entire page. Google makes only three requests for 18 Kbytes of data and loads for me in 230 milliseconds.
Some of this is clearly down to the size of files on Vole.com but the design of the MSDN site makes the loading almost tectonic.
Dave noted that there were more than 30 scripts on one page that was designed so all the scripts had to run before the page appears.
He said the Vole can pat itself on the back that it is not its flagship server product that is responsible for the problem. It is more likely to be its flagship webdevelopers who should be collecting their P45s and pink slips.
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...Because they started implementing Silverlight in all its full glory? 

This is to "encourage" people to adopt MS's solution. (showing what can be done).

...As no one is bothering with it at this time.

Are you sure it's the dev's? Was XBox live recently upgrade to Server 2008?
Wow, so M$-Bloatware carries over from their LoseDoze O/S to their web page - big dang surprise...
Does anyone remember when MS bought Hotmail? Hotmail ran just fine on FreeBSD and handled an amazing load. Then MS bought Hotmail and migrated to their own server software only to fail miserably in the first few weeks.
Windows 2008 is no different...
Maybe they should use Apple servers running Darwin (Ouch!!!)
I've long since given up trying to find anything on the Microsoft site using their inbuilt search function.

Using google and specifying the Microsoft domain is far faster and invariably gives you what you want in the first 3 results, unlike the Microsoft search!
Yah you can tell their webdevs are bad just look at the main MS site. Right side menu on an English page. Thats just bad design.
Microsoft.com loads up in seconds for me, I wouldn't complain about the speed. And, its stupid to suggest that they are using Server 2008 for their web server. Why on earth would any company use an in development product on their production servers, it doesn't make sense.