New and Improved Subscriber Download UI is LIVE!

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Daniel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:23:16 GMT

You have made a great work, the UI is more usable than before, but I have a suggestion: Add product descriptions, please. For example, if I am to download XP MUI Pack I want to know which CD download to get my preferred language. As it is now, I must guess or download the 5 CDs.

I'm sure the MSDN team could write a brief paragraph describing every download, additional caveats, etc.

Not every MSDN subscriber knows everything about the content of his/her subscription, and it adds a professional touch to the subscriber interface.

Just my two cents!

[Chris responds: With regard to file languages: The languages are strongly tied to the file. So if you have your language set to "French" and you see a file (especially a "MU" file) you can be sure the file has the French language (and if it isn't the case, it would be a data bug).

With regard to other descriptions: Instead of writing descriptions ourselves, we are going to provide links to other pages that are more in line with finding out about a product. Who better to tell you about a product than the team that created it in the first place? The links will be embedded in the details section of the UI for each of the files.

Thanks for your feedback!]

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SvenC — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:49:49 GMT

Perfect! Easy and efficient! Thanks a lot

SvenC

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sfoo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:22:43 GMT

The "old" new interface was just starting to grow on me.. doh!

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Eduardo Molteni — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:37:18 GMT

Very nice! Like it a lot! Thanks

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Gene — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:24:11 GMT

Where can I find what is new for download?

[Chris responds: http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/subscriptions/MSDNdata.xml and http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/technet/en-us/subscriptions/technetdata.xml and http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/expression/en-us/subscriptions/expressiondata.xml are the "what's new" RSS feeds that we have available. We are working on a regular web page that provides similar "what's new" functionality as well.]

re: New and Improved Subscriber Download UI is LIVE!

Alexey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:58:14 GMT

Just my two cents:

1. I'm agree with Daniel about product descriptions.

2. Add please checkboxes for language filter. (for filtering two or more languages)

3. Add category in RSS feed ( language, product, group)

New MSDN,TechNet and Expressions Subscriptions UX Re-Launched

Inside MSDN and TechNet — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:28:45 GMT

We have taken a bunch of your feedback and last night we updated the UX for downloads for MSDN, TechNet

re: New and Improved Subscriber Download UI is LIVE!

Ozz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:05:57 GMT

Good Job with the new UI a great improvement

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Patrick — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:20:00 GMT

I think that something is missing from the new UI (and also the old one):

To have a system where we can receive an e-mail when a new (or updated) download is available for our subscription, With this, there will be no need to look regularly at a "new downloads" page to see what's new.

Patrick

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Gill Cleeren — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:17:56 GMT

This new UI is a real improvement over the previous versions: looks fresh, very responsive and light, just what it needed to be.

Congrats on a job well done!

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Peter — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:32:21 GMT

Please could you bring back the feature allowing all items on a product page ( or in a category? ) to be selected for download in one go - 'Select all for download'?

Also, it is not possible to print ( e.g. to Acrobat ) all the information ( description, keys etc ) on a download page - could that be allowed?

[Chris responds: Thanks for your feedback. We'll add that to our feature request list. We do have the page that lists all of your keys so you can export them to Xml (found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/cc137106.aspx) but current the AJAX construction of our downloads page doesn't work correctly with page "saving".]

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Daboodah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:42:39 GMT

Anybody else having problems accessing the linksusing IE7? I never had problems accessing the old site. When I try to access any of the three links above with IE7, page flickers and tries to reload several times and ends up on page that states the following:

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Windows Live ID is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons:

This site may be experiencing a problem.

The site may not be a member of Windows Live ID.

You can:

You can sign in or sign up at other Windows Live ID sites and services, or try again later at this site.

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Works fine with FireFox (how ironic).

[Chris responds: This is usually due to a cookie problem. If you were to clear your cookies *and* close your browser, the issue would likely clear up. The reason Firefox works (in this case) is because the cookies aren't shared and the one for Firefox is ok.]

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Andy P — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:24:08 GMT

Thank you so much! This new UI is so much better than the last one (I'm suprised the last one got through QC...). The new one is as easy to use as the 'classic' one but with much better descriptions etc. Good job.

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Chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:17:32 GMT

I'm having the same problem as Daboodah on 3 different systems. Is the site currently working for anybody?

[Chris responds: Have you tried the fix I provided for Daboodah?]

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Chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:52:07 GMT

I hadn't tried it when I posted (after all, what's the chance of a broken cookie on 3 different browsers?) but I gave it a go anyway, and sure enough, it worked :)

Thanks!

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AMJ — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:06:18 GMT

Worst than before. For example, try to download Windows XP Pro SP3 English. It took five minutes to find it then I gave up.

[Chris responds: Hmmm. Here are my steps:

1. Navigate here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx
2. Type xp in the search box (or Windows or just navigate to "Operating Systems > Windows XP") and click on the blue "Windows XP" node.
3. Look for "Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3" in the list of items. If you click the "Last updated", it'll sort very near the top (4th item) because it is fairly new.

Does this not work for you?]

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Sami Kuhmonen — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:59:27 GMT

Great! This is a lot better than the horrible thing that was up for a while. Now I can finally find my way around the site again.

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Gopal — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:18:01 GMT

Unable to login to technet - Windows Live ID is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons.

Neither Firefox nor IE 6/7 works. Wonder what is going on. What should i do?

[Chris responds: It would be rare to see corrupted cookies in both IE and FF, but it is possible. Try deleting your cookies, close your browser (you must do this too) and try again. If this doesn’t resolve your issue, private mail me and we’ll get your some help.]

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SubscriptionsBlogger2 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:41:16 GMT

Gopal:

As has been posted a few times:

This is usually due to a cookie problem. If you were to clear your cookies *and* close your browser, the issue would likely clear up. The reason Firefox works sometimes when IE does not is because the cookies aren't shared and one might be ok and the other not ok.

I just confirmed that the site is available without any problems.

MSDN Subscriber Downloads Improved

ASPInsiders — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:05:38 GMT

For a while, it seemed like it kept becoming more of a hand eye coordination game trying to orchestrate

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KEVIN JOHN PANZKE — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:03:33 GMT

Thank You Microsoft, I Like The New Design Much Better Than The Old Design, Keep Up The Good Work.

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Winston C — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:31:16 GMT

No matter what I do I get the "Windows Live ID is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons" error. This includes trying this on 4 different systems with XP, Vista Business,, and OSX 10.5. No amount of deleting cookies and flushing settings in IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, or Safari will get me past that error.

Any other suggestions?

[Chris responds: Are you closing your browser after clearing your cookies? And if so, please contact me privately and we'll try to figure out what is going on.]