Quote Originally Posted by timeshifter
Simple question. How does MSDN know you're using VB?
Because the page and/or the search would see your browser has no cookie set for the language and ask you up-front. It doesn't though, and the unknowing has to "discover" the language filter but not before becoming confused and overwhelmed first.

@Athiest:

No, not just go away, just hide them or collapse them by default. Cut right to the relevant information. Yea, after looking at my mockup, I do like the top-links, though those could be cut down. Maybe the last-three steps in or so, or better yet, scale it with the client area .