Comments on: Apple vs. Microsoft – A Website Usability Study

By: Tri Nguyen

Tri Nguyen — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:07:40 +0000

I completely agree with you on these points.

By: Sensitive Designs

Sensitive Designs — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:35:23 +0000

Btw i visited your website..

By: Sensitive Designs

Sensitive Designs — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:32:42 +0000

Is more information means more complication? I bet atleast 60% of Microsoft Website visitors are in not sure whether they are in right page or not!!! i always felt like so.. so i usually do is give a search in google and get in that page mostly..

Why cant they come forward and have a dicussion on this topic? They are really less cared and the they did it in the way how a Developer do designs

Let Designers Do the Designs not the Developers

By: kyriakos

kyriakos — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:19:54 +0000

I think a lot of people fail to realize how much more information Microsoft offers on their websites and the fact that it is being targeted to different groups of people with different expectations and backgrounds. Whereas Apple is primarily a consumer product company.

By: Sensitive Designs

Sensitive Designs — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:27:43 +0000

Your right..

Microsoft is less cared about UI than Apple

By: Sensitive Designs

Sensitive Designs — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:16:41 +0000

A GOOD UI DOESNT MEAN LESS CONTENT.. A GOOD UI IS THE CLEVEREST WAY OF REPRESENTING VISUALLY EXTRACTED DATAS FROM DATABASE AND POSTING TO THE VISITORS IN THE WAY THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND EASILY THE RELATION BETWEEN THOSE EXTRACTED DATAS.

ALSO yeh Microsoft is trying to improve thier UI for last couple of years i believe. i can feel the changes and its getting better day by day.. but apple already did it in a finest way as they can

Also Apple Website is not only great in UI approach but also in Visually too.. If we are in a page of thier website we can easily predict that in which we are browsing by looking at thier big splash image or banner image placed in a creative way.. also they have a consistant design throughout the website unlike microsoft..

And regrading IBM Website, i cannot say that its that much bad but its not that much good too only thing is its neat design with no clusters for the eye with no icons or visual representations used.. only texts .. DID YOU CALL IT A CREATIVE DESIGN

Anyways nice article..

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:51:29 +0000

I wouldn’t wholly agree with that one. Apple are both hardware and software, granted not to the extremes of Microsoft’s software development, but there is a wealth of information available for iOS development, widgets and add ons for their main OS and all presented in the same consistent style with easy navigation from page to page. As a web user you always know where you are and how to get around.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:47:55 +0000

“I’m a PC” but I used to be seriously pro Mac and still love their products.

In terms of usability though, from time to time I often check Apple’s site to see what’s new and have never had a problem finding the information I need. It’s fast, friendly and well presented.

On the microsoft site(s) however, after a few minutes searching around I haven’t got a clue where I am or what the heck it was I went on there to search for in the first place.

By: laxman shivashankar

laxman shivashankar — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +0000

Nice Article ! let me admit that first.
MS should have an option of finding the user’s interest first and allow him or direct him to jump into that area, since it is vast.

Here both have a different set of audience. Apple is truly public.
They have something ‘physically’ to show, mainly the products which we can feel it.
Where as Microsoft deals with software which demands more content (Technical) and target audience are more of computer savvy .

I feel you cannot compare which is the best ! but few points like consistency in look and feel and few more make sense.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:49:08 +0000

Microsoft’s website has so many damn sections and pages with completely different looks, I never know where the heck I am.