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May 12, 2007 12:56 am AEST — By Long Zheng

Microsoft.com: a pictorial collage

Did you know? There are just short of 100 different regional variations of Microsoft.com. Above is a collage of all the (unique) Microsoft.com websites available – some smaller countries shared duplicated websites amongst its neighbors. Almost all are individually maintained and updated with local content and native language. Only about 10% of the sites are updated to the latest version, mostly western countries with large markets.

Weirdest regional website? Microsoft Pakistan. A website clearly showing its age. Still promoting Internet Explorer Release Candidate 1, Windows Media Player 10 and Office 2003.

25 Responses

  1. Gr1zz says:

    4th colum, 6th row. Theres a orange photo of something cool going on, I just cant read the language.

  2. Morten says:

    I can. It’s norwegian and it says “Defeat a ninja. Easy.”

  3. Marco says:

    the picture doesnt appear in my browser.
    ie7, vista

    i dont have any problem with flash (or other content) on any site but this one here.

    looking for help :-)

  4. Atomusk says:

    Marco : Same Here

  5. Zim says:

    Wonderful collage. Probably Pakistan is going to receive the *new* Vista for this christmas :P

  6. Keeron says:

    Same here – IE7/Vista the flash content is empty (white).

  7. RC says:

    Hmm, picture isn’t showing up here as well, IE7/XP. I thought it was just me.

  8. Hans vH says:

    Its fine in Firefox

  9. tino says:

    Great. Did you create this, Long?

  10. Orion says:

    I have the same problm as Marco, Atomusk, Keeron and RC. I have Windows Vista Business (activated,RTM Build), Adobe Flash 9 and Internet Explorer 7. Most other flash content works and only this one is not funcioning correctly. It shows all white. Is there another copy of this?

  11. Nick says:

    Get Firefox!

    Very interesting collage

  12. Long Zheng says:

    Fixed problem with Internet Explorer 7.

  13. Zaldy says:

    Coordinates are wrong.

    5 column, 6th row.

  14. RC says:

    Works now. What was the problem Long? I’ve noticed the blank image problem a couple time recently on other sites.

  15. Marco says:

    thanks for fixing long

    (no, i definately wont use firefox, ie7 is great)

  16. Syco says:

    I think someone needs a hobby, or a girlfriend, or something…

  17. Long Zheng says:

    @Syco: Would you buy me one for Christmas?

  18. BoInTheMix says:

    It’s nice to see that israel on the map!
    i love the ide long! :)

  19. RC says:

    Hey, if you go to the Israel page, the scroll bar is on the lefthand side. I know they read hebrew backwards, but I’ve not seen that before. Cool.

  20. Long Zheng says:

    @RC: The problem was caused by a silly HTML error that Firefox ignored, whilst IE7 picked up on.

  21. BoInTheMix says:

    Long it’s in the left side.. in hebrew we read right to the left
    lol dont you see windows vista in hebrew? it’s so funny

    http://img121.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4fh3.jpg

    http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=14ej7.jpg

  22. John Dale says:

    I really like the Zoomify interface across the bottom. How was this done? It’s quite different from the default, out-of-the-box interface which Zoomify ships with.

  23. Long Zheng says:

    @John Dale: This is generated by the “Zoomify” export in Photoshop CS3

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