March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
An unspoken advantage of Microsoft in the portal marketplace is that Microsoft has itself created many of the web's top portal sites, and it has constructed them largely on Microsoft's own technology. Examples include Expedia for online travel, the online literary salon slate.com, and the sister portal MSNBC for news. This set of web properties has provided an amazing laboratory and proving ground, stress testing web sites, personalization,e-commerce, collaboration, and other user services. Three sites stand out as Microsoft portals that convey best practices: microsoft.com, the Microsoft corporate intranet, and the Microsoft Network (MSN).
Microsoft's web site microsoft.com is a portal in its own right, ...
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