Amazing Live.com glitch!

Now how do these guys manage to these kinds of things. I am genuinely surprised.

I am one of the (few?) fans of Microsoft's Live.com. I find much better than Google Reader and though I would like others to add my blogs' feeds to Reader, I manage my subscriptions through Live.com.

But today what I saw was just unbelievably hilarious! Just look at this one. Have you ever seen a site's name getting disappeared from its banner?

Well here is the magic for you! Not only the name, even the menu options get disappeared.

This is Microsoft, and anything is possible!

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