New look microsoft

redesign of www.microsoft.com

[joshie76]

Just noticed this: [microsoft.com...]

It's all new, and the first thing I saw were three javascript errors. tut tut.

[joshie76]

I obviously caught them during the switch.. the whole top banner section was missing and JS errors where flying everywhere.

It's fixed now and the old style 'banner' is back. Still a new look though.

[g1smd]

... and still absolutely nowhere near to validating?

validation results [validator.w3.org] [XHTML settings were even worse]

See also: [webmasterworld.com...]

[victor]

The CSE HMTL validator runs up a total of 303 errors and 82 warnings on the new home page.

Not a world record, but a still a good Olympic-class showing for the site from Redmond.

[dhdweb]

I just viewed the source for the new page ......... YUCK

Really hard on the eyes, maybe intentional? Who knows ........ lol

Most likely done in FrontPage Express :-)

[EliteWeb]

the mouseover menus take a few seconds to load up, even after loaded. hehehe i dont like the new design much. but hey oh well.

[g1smd]

Theres a parody site of Microsoft at [microsot.com...] . On many browsers this completely fails to load. All you get is a completely blue screen.

Looking at: validation results [validator.w3.org] shows why. The HTML coding is as 'good' as that used by Microsoft. This site really gives the validator a hard time.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke on 2002 Aug 25 at 15:30 (utc)]

[edited by: g1smd at 4:32 pm (utc) on Aug. 25, 2002]

[andreasfriedrich]

It´s not a parody site but rather a site that wants to cash in on Microsoft´s "popularity". Notice the "If interested in purchasing this domain please click it!" at the lower left corner of the website.

[g1smd]

I didn't notice anything at all, other than a completely blue screen devoid of any logos or text but which took ages to load. The HTML is so badly broken it doesn't work on my browser.

[keyplyr]

It seems they've forgotten the link to my site.

[bird]

I like the fact that Microsoft has an apple as the first picture on their home page... ;)

[Lisa]

Microsoft actually had me in a usability study for their homepage a few months ago. They brought in about 80 people had them give input and organize their site. It was a fun study. This new look is exactly what they were showing us 4 months ago. It was a very challenging study. They gave us around 300 note cards with all the different areas and then they told us to make them organized. Then to create links from the frontpage. Whew, it looked almost impossible. They have to much stuff they can’t possibly feature it all on one frontpage.

[dhdweb]

They don't even have a DTD

[g1smd]

Validation results [validator.w3.org] [XHTML settings were even worse]

Now... where is that thread I saw earlier today that said that 95% of the sites of the members of W3C did not validate. Can't find it, but the site it links to is [webstandards.org...] ; see the article dated 2002 August 23.