re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] Sunday, August 24, 2008 at 7:04 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |Actually I posted the Microsoft site in that site | Keith Stanier | I guess you mean "I tried to get microsoft.com to validate". "That site" (w3c.org) is The WorldWide Web Consortium. Those are the folks who **write** the HTML specification (and CSS, and XHTML,...). They are the ultimate arbiter of what *IS* proper HTML and what *ISN'T*. |and it came back with 177 errors and 40 warnings | No surprise to me. Microsoft's site looks like crap on non-M$ browsers. |so if they can't get it right who can. | Pffft. You M$ fanbois are precious. Microsoft almost MISSED the whole *Internet* thing. Anyone who knows anything about M$ knows they almost shipped Win95 without a browser. Since then, they've been doing everything they can to marginalize the Internet. cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish#Origin Notice where it says "Microsoft's strategy toward Netscape, Java, and the Internet". |So I would't knock their software for that minor detail. | Code is code. Like I said: A company's Web page is their front door with a sign on it. If a company puts up improperly-coded Web pages, the sign says "We don't know much about generating proper code". **VALIDATION AGAINST THE STANDARD** IS PART OF THE CODING PROCESS. Written in response to: re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (Keith Stanier: Friday, August 22, 2008 at 9:58 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Key missing (Albanco: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 8:53 am) re: Key missing (Keith Stanier: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 9:09 am) [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (gewg_: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 11:52 am) re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (Keith Stanier: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 12:09 pm) re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (gewg_: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 2:23 pm) re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (Keith Stanier: Thu, Aug 21, 2008, 4:16 pm) re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (gewg_: Thu, Aug 21, 2008, 4:28 pm) re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (Keith Stanier: Fri, Aug 22, 2008, 9:58 am) re: [No Windows Product Key; files were deleted on HDD] (gewg_: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 7:04 pm) re: Key missing (Alan Masterman: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 7:40 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum