".. it doesn't really work, we don't quite know what it is supposed to do or how it performs, but one thing is for sure, you will pay loads for it and have little or no come back on us if it wastes your companies precious time..."

...Sounds like just about any MS project to date!!!

I can just think of it. "All your warez belong to..."

On the contrary. The Register isn't here to give "good coverage", whatever you might think that is. They report what they see. If what they see looks suspicious, that's hardly their fault, now is it, A...nonymous?

No company is totally safe from bashing, but "this important company" has provided so many targets for bashing, especially in the last few years. You can't expect people to just sit back and ignore it as that would be no more balanced than what you are accusing the Reg of being with all those horrible bashers... they bash and gloat and rip and make fun and take the... IT'S NOT FAIR, IT TELLS YA! WAAAAAAAH!!!

Can't argue with a and b.

I can argue with c though. They only listen to their customers when it suits them, or when to do otherwise will significantly affect their earnings. The problem is that they are too big and are controlled too much by one sector of the business which often leads them into strife. While they have come up with good things over the years, the whole business is geared towards the domination of the market at whatever cost.

As for d, the usual way of putting this, as has been said over so many years, is "Never touch a Microsoft product until the first service pack comes out".