pageoneresults - 3:13 pm on Sep 2, 2008 (gmt 0)

Microsoft want to know why SEOs hate their products.

It may be a little late for them wanting to know. Maybe if this question was posed a few years back?

.NET is an SEOs nightmare! I'm fortunate in that I have quality people on board who have taken my instructions over the years and we've built around .NET's shortcomings. Thankfully we have ISAPI_Rewrite 3.0 because if we didn't, I'd surely be developing on an Apache platform with PHP.

.NET X/HTML is crap! It is bloated to the nth degree. It requires a programmer on board to do things that could normally be done by someone with X/HTML coding experience.

There are way too many ways to achieve the same result. From the complex to the simplest. Many over complicate the .NET environment.

I could go on forever about .NET. We've finally tackled it. It took years and a lot of money and fumbling about but we did it. Screw you Microsoft! You've cost my team a lot of money and countless hours of lost sleep from the servers side. If I didn't have the type of money I do invested along with some killer classic asp and .NET applications, I'd be making the switch to Apache right now. You're freakin' licenses alone are enough to keep most from coming over to this side.

And then we have your attitude of not wanting to follow the standards and do your own thing. :(

Yup, Front Page was rubbish. That's why Microsoft have stopped making it.

I knew that was coming. If there is one product from Microsoft that I have rave reviews for, it is Front Page and EWD. Actually, I prefer FP over EWD and will use it most of the time. .NET sites require EWD for editing or you may end up breaking something. I did! :)

Microsoft, me thinks you're a bit late to the party as usual. With the release of Google Chrome recently, your market share just shattered some more. It won't be long before IE goes the way of Netscape.

Microsoft want to know why SEOs hate their products.

Why? What do they want to know? Why now and why not years ago when their brand ship was sinking? What, did they lodge themeselves on a sandbar somewhere?