All roads lead to Redmond.
Travel is one of the hottest areas of e-commerce.
It comes as no surprise, then, that the 800-pound gorilla of the Net has launched its own travel site. But Microsoft Expedia surprised us, turning out better than we expected. Despite a few glaring errors in the initial pages, most Expedia pages made for a smooth, easy buying experience. With a few improvements, Expedia could evolve into a truly excellent e-commerce site. The goal of our Expedia test was to buy a round-trip plane ticket from New York to Seattle.