I seem to be a verb

Why is half of live.com set in Verdana, and the other in its ugly (too tightly tracked) cousin Tahoma? Why are links never underlined, but vary in color from blue to black to grey (aka text-colored) to orange? Why is everything inconsistently aligned and placed? Why are most UI elements like tabs or dropdowns excessively minimalistic (you can be thankful if there's a very light grey hairline around some text to indicate it's something to be interacted with), yet other elements like the avatar images have a heavyhanded combo of drop shadow, bevel and glossy effects?
Why does everything look like a very rough first draft rather than a polished product? Do things look acceptable in IE, maybe? Also: Would you please sort out your damn domains? Live.com is a search engine called "Live Search". "Windows Live" resides at "home.live.com". Logging out there redirects you to "MSN.com". What?
Also also: Do people really get paid to come up with run-on, generic product names like "Microsoft Office Live Small Business Beta"?
Just wondering.

This has got to be the airline with the worst branding and design ever: The name that sounds vaguely Finnish if you don't immediately get which two words it's made out of, the livery with that atrocious sketch of a fly on the plane's nose and the awkwardly rotated Niki logo on the tail, the ads (a really bad illustration of Niki Lauda is scaring people in Stockholm's subway system, others think it depicts Pope Benedict): The entire CI by Hannes Rausch (who was previously responsible for Lauda Air and Red Zac, among others) looks dated and amateurish.
Just look at that image above: Why two different shades of blue for the oval and the text? That font's almost worse than Comic Sans. And why is Niki's head tinted red?!

Plus, the airline also has the least legroom I've yet experienced on a low-cost carrier. Free sandwiches and newspapers don't make up for that.