Microsoft has a preview its coming homepage redesigned live that anyone can take a peek at. As far as corporate homepage go, this one is aces.
Here is the current site:
And this is the preview version:
It hits on all the major design requirements for a Metro-theme’d page: big, sweeping images, blocks of colors with white text standing on top, and of course, rectangles to form its other UI components.
Metro can trace its heritage far back at Microsoft, even to the first major Zune player software refresh. That’s how long Microsoft has been baking this particular bun. Now, sound off in the comments with your take on the design. After all, from Windows 8, to Windows Phone 8, to Xbox, and even to Office, Metro is king. This is simply another restatement of that fact.
Microsoft is all in on squares. Let’s hope consumers are on board.
