Microsoft's new version of Internet Explorer will not render pages on more than 2,400 top sites - including Redmond's own website.

The incompatibility list has been released to match the Release Candidate test version of IE 8 that the company released in January.

According to Microsoft, the tool is designed to "make sure IE8 customers have a great experience with highly trafficked sites that have not yet fully accommodated IE8’s better implementation of web standards".

The list is somewhat long, and rather than name and shame those companies, it seems to indicate that when it comes to web standards noone, not even Microsoft, is listening.

Microsoft said that it used tester feedback to select which sites to include on the list, and that it will be updated regularly. The list of sites includes Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Vnunet, msn.com.cn, tom.com, amazon.cn, youtube.com, wikipedia.org, myspace.com, flickr.com and countless other big names. X