September 01
www.start.com released (no more /1, /2, /3)
start.com is now available on
http://www.start.com (no more puzzles and url obfucsation) - while we were planning on shipping this monday, we had to delay the release to ensure a more polished look and feel as well as firefox compatibility (we don't ship anymore features on start.com unless they are compatible with IE and FireFox). the most common term around start the past 2 days has been - that looks awesome, does it work in firefox ? :)
primarily driven by customer feedback, some of the highlights include:
- feed read/unread support
- more/fewer headlines for rss feeds
- many improvements on:
- look and feel
- feed subscriptions
- default experience
- sidebar behavior
- regular feed auto-refresh
one thing i'm really proud of, is our new on hover sidebar behavior and it's interaction with other modules. try pinning 'add content' doing a search and clicking on subscribe :) it's pretty cool. we also spent hours, polishing things to ensure everything lined up, huge thanks to steve. not only is he a super star dev, he also has a designer's eye and attention to detail... the rest of the team, noor, george and venkat did a really kick ass job too - we've all been pulling late nights for the last 3 days, all working in steve's office :) - it's a great bonding experience for the newly expanded team of 6.
i'm really proud of our latest rev, and hope you like it too. send feedback, comment or email: startfb@microsoft.com... i personally read all the feedback - in fact i value our customer feedback so much it take precendence over the rest of my emails :)
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