.There's been plenty of buzz today about the Office 2010 public beta. Download links have gone live for Technet and MSDN subscribers, but as for the general public - they're left browsing yet another Microsoft tease.
Head over to the Office beta download page, and you'll see three links to chose from. Pick any one you like. The result's the same, a redirect to a page that says 'Hey, Office 2010 beta is coming soon!' I guess that's fine, right? I mean, it's not like anyone clicking a download button would expect 1) direct access to a download or 2) a form they can fill out to get at the files.
Now, I don't run a big fancy website like Microsoft's, but is it really that hard to keep pages like this offline until the files are available?
The good news in this is that yes, the public beta is coming soon. It'd be nice if that landing page actually had 'coming soon' buttons instead of shiny green 'download' buttons. That seems like a distinction which is important to make.
As a bonus, it might save your servers having to deal with 12,000,000 page refresh requests.
Head over to the Office beta download page, and you'll see three links to chose from. Pick any one you like. The result's the same, a redirect to a page that says 'Hey, Office 2010 beta is coming soon!' I guess that's fine, right? I mean, it's not like anyone clicking a download button would expect 1) direct access to a download or 2) a form they can fill out to get at the files.
Now, I don't run a big fancy website like Microsoft's, but is it really that hard to keep pages like this offline until the files are available?
The good news in this is that yes, the public beta is coming soon. It'd be nice if that landing page actually had 'coming soon' buttons instead of shiny green 'download' buttons. That seems like a distinction which is important to make.
As a bonus, it might save your servers having to deal with 12,000,000 page refresh requests.
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