In addition to improving the UI and centralizing the download and code sample content by topic into the library, this project also helped us clean-up our back-end content management system for downloads and code samples by reducing redundant production work, removing an outdated publishing tool, and rebuilding an infrastructure that previously didn't scale to our needs.
The new download management system now allows us to store our download data and bits in a scalable server environment with a distributed architecture. The new system includes a management and publishing tool which is used to submit, attribute, and publish the download or sample in a consistent way, thus providing us with the ability to more easily localize our downloads, show the most popular downloads, to query by topic or owner or other attributes, and to ensure that all downloads are published consistently across the microsoft.com domain—making it easier for you, our customers, to locate the information you are looking for.
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