According to Redmond Developer News, Microsoft is working hard to tune up MSDN. Appearantly, Microsoft has composed a team of people that will do research on how the user experience of the MSDN site can be improved.
"There's great content there. It's very thorough, but from a practical standpoint, it doesn't really meet people's needs," said Brian Hsi, a product manager involved in the effort, who made his pitch at the meeting. "It's kind of static. It's really a library at the end of the day."
He also added that Microsoft is only in the very early stages, so it's not someting we'll be seeing any time soon. It will also be more community-involved, whereas MSDN is now largely a static website (which can't of course be said of sites like CodePlex and Channel9).
Again from RedDevNews:
The biggest criticism of MSDN is the difficulty of finding content spread across the various Microsoft services, including CodePlex, CodeGallery, Channel 9 and the various forums, libraries and blogs. It's a situation that motivated several developers at the meeting to express frustration with the challenge of finding information on MSDN.
We'll keep an eye on this, and hopefully this is an effort in which Microsoft will engage the community also. There might be a lot of valuable input there of the people that use the site a lot. Microsoft...?
The entire article can be found here.