I just came across a new Microsoft Search website. Microsoft has replaced their favorite blue color to the black and white, as shown in the picture above. It provides search on the Microsoft Downloads, Support, MSDN, TechNet, Company Information, XBox, and Communities. In a general sense, a website redesigns mean an upgraded version of a particular website. I wonder the Microsoft Search redesigns can be viewed as the signal of their efforts in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Microsoft’s search capabilities?

In terms of color, white mean simplicity and cleanliness. On the other hand, black represent seriousness, secrecy, does this mean when an user tend to search a content inside Microsoft’s server, he/she is serious about it? And Microsoft is served as a “secret garden” to most of its users?