critique of Microsoft.com design

Stopdesign | Throwing Tables Out the Window: "The shame is that Microsoft's site isn't as optimized as it could be. They haven't taken the plunge yet. Users download unnecessarily larger pages, and servers waste extra bandwidth to keep up. At 40 KB, the HTML for Microsoft's home page is not exactly a bloated beast. But it is burdened with inaccessible, kludgy, table-based markup filled with proprietary attributes and some awkward JavaScript. "