Comments on: MSN AdCenter – Where Usability Goes to Die

By: David Rodnitzky

David Rodnitzky — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:15:04 +0000

Good point Terry. I do recall that the MSN desktop app only allows you to manage one account at a time anyway. I think I had to go through all sorts of hoops just to switch from one client to another!

By: Terry Whalen

Terry Whalen — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:41:03 +0000

The desktop app – that is too funny! It rarely works. Steve, I will bet you $1 that it will not work for David. David's account will be too big, or his operating system will be 'wrong' or whatever. I've gotten the desktop app to work for a few minutes here and there, with a small amount of data, and the app is itself horrible, and barely saves any time anyway.

By: David Rodnitzky

David Rodnitzky — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:20:27 +0000

OK Steve, I am going to re-download the desktop app again and give it a whirl.Typical Microsoft "usability" though if the desktop app does work – the system works as long as you adapt your processes to the way Microsoft designs things!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:34:52 +0000

I won't disagree that the adCenter UI is SOOOO horrible. I just wanted to point out that the things you're talking about (and likely the things you hate but haven't talked about yet) can be dealt with fairly quickly using the adCenter desktop application. Its a free download, and VERY useful to making changes to your adCenter campaigns.