Rick,
Well, I guess we have to wait and see what MS delivers.
In the meantime, sometimes it seems to me that argument boils down to a confused IT version of "New Zealand is so useless that only 4 million people live there". Sometimes people can't see the wood for the trees.
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1