I don’t know what’s been going through their heads lately at Microsoft Live.
- The first thing was that the Statistics functionality would randomly fail. You’d click on stats and get a dead link. Hit refresh enough times and it would load. That seems to be better since MS deployed an update to the templates/layouts.
- The Live DNS servers fail intermittently. My blog goes offline due to DNS failures at Live every now and then. It’s happened twice in the last couple of weeks that I know of. I hope the DNS service is geographically dispersed.
- The worst is the new buttons for managing the sites. They’re supposed to be drop down buttons where a menu appears and you select an option. The menu does appear but the button also is a link which loads another page before you can select a menu option. 3/4 of the administrator functionality in unavailable because of this. Someone needs to crack a few developers heads together over this one.
It’s pretty annoying. These are very simple things to sort out. I know it’s a free service but if MS wants to generate revenue from advertising then they need to make the service more easy and reliable than options from alternatives such as WordPress.