I don't know about you, but my personal opinion is that it is one of the most bloated sites that exist on the net. I know that it is hard to find the balance between simplicity and the amount of information u provide, but this surely can be done better that it is the case at microsoft.com.
The lack of a common vision that governs all Microsoft sites is an obstacle for people to find the right information they seek.

For example the lack of a place you can go to find support like a forum.microsoft.com or something.
The newsgroups are scattered across all sites and hard to find. There is also the lack of a common form of forum. Some use nntp others are web forum that you access form the browser, and even others that you can access form the browser and through a (nntp) news reader.

Lack of management of these groups:
For example the newsgroups at nntp:news.microsoft.com have a lot of group that are way to old like the OE6beta group

There are too many places you can download the same things. It is confusing. The worst thing is that most of the time on each of these another version is available.

And I could go on. I searched last year a great deal to find the site that you sign up for the ISV Empower program. After that the sign up took an awful lot of time.

So what do you guys think of this matter?