The typography seems pretty off here.

The type is way too small and the layout is disjointed. It's also weird that this lives within the microsoft.com wrapper. I think that subtle clue tells you everything you need to know about design at Microsoft:

Microsoft thinks design should be a few lame marketing headlines buried within their corporate site

Google thinks design needs its own robust website: https://design.google.com/

...And even though I hate that monospaced font, it shows how much power Google design teams have vs. at Microsoft.

"Scroll to explore" Scrolls 5 sentences on 2 screens

Boy, that was some great exploration!

Cynicism aside, I like to see companies taking design seriously. I don't think this is as beefy as it could be, but I'm hoping it's a work in progress.

Also, icons reminds me of this.

OK, who's next? My guess: Yahoo! Design.

If you are a designer in Microsoft you need to have hawk eyes

Let me recommend Susy instead of this mess:

class="s-col-3-3 m-col-2-3 l-col-11-24 xl-col-11-24 l-col-24-offset-8 xl-col-24-offset-8"

People love to hate Microsoft.

For a design language based on Modernist typography, the type is quite tiny. It doesn't help that Segeo is a quite thin weighted typeface to begin with.

Pretty nice color choices and iconography however.

IMHO, attention to detail and seeing great, complete things through doesn't seem to be Microsoft's forte. Sluggish, undercooked animations. The circle of dots get cut off at the edge. Gigantic titles and really tiny copy. On mobile the carousel readjusts in size when you move to another slide.

pretty weird behavior. not smooth on the transitions.

Good feedback peeps, I will try to pass this along to the team working on this. It's definitely a work in progress (as is a lot of the design culture at msft).

Another site made in house that I especially likehttps://powerbi.microsoft.com/

Also something you may not have noticed is the work being done for http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ to update for windows 10 and unifying all the disparate sites across microsoft.

Strange and cheesy in many ways :|

However, whatever makes design the centre of things, I'm all for.

very windows! missing the timing on navigation color changing.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/practice

The copy is so flat. And more than the copy being dismal, there's simply no story to that page.

The scroll to explore thing seems pretty unnecessary. At this point, I think even the average web user at least attempts to scroll upon landing on a page. Also, I honestly couldn't find the actual content of the site for quite a bit (because, in addition to being unnecessary, the scroll tip had me primed for a one-pager).

I really miss some animations.