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Windows Live Shopping: 100% AJAX-Powered, 0% Firefox-Compatible

 


Firefox compatibility still on the wish-list

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Tuesday, May 2, 2006; 03:49 AM

Microsoft announced the beta launch of shopping.live.com - a "Web 2.0 shopping experience, featuring one of the world’s largest product catalogs, user-created content and an easier-to-use interface built on 100% AJAX technology."

According to the official development blog, it uses a unified shopping engine to search or browse almost 40 million products from 7,000 stores ranging from many of the country’s leading retailers to eBay. Results are displayed in an order that is not affected by advertising; merchants cannot pay to have their items show up closer to the top. Users will be able to drag-and-drop items to a shopping list and share lists with friends; see user reviews of products and sellers; and read and create public shopping guides on any subject.

The features in the beta include drag and drop lists and guides, as well as enhanced preview, which allows users to get the details of an item without having to click to a details page. With guides, users can create shopping guides about any subject and link to any set of products in Windows Live Shopping, adding their own comments and insights.  Users can rate other users’ guides for their helpfulness. Top-rated guides are to be displayed in relevant contexts in Windows Live Shopping. 

Say the developers: "What is our vision?  In the future, Windows Live Shopping will continue to offer the great comparison shopping services you see today, while also integrating more social and community features that will enable users to better research, share, and have fun with their shopping experiences.  AJAX will allow us to execute against this vision with a rich user interface that is modularized to capitalize on the gadgets craze.  This Beta offering is just the tip of the iceberg."

Currently, the new Microsoft site does not support the second most popular web browser - Mozilla Firefox.  


Windows Live Shopping in Internet Explorer.

 

 

 The site in Firefox.

 

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