Comment What is Microsoft good for anymore (Score 1) 55
Even if you hated Microsoft, it used to be easy to see that paying the MS tax got you something in return: legitamacy, compatibilty, reasonable support lifetimes. Now what? Why aren't they willing to satisfy paying customers, rather than just pushing us onto the latest flavor of the day? Plenty of places need longevity and consistancy on thier OS / user interfaces. Seems like a good reason to design them out of industrial applications, etc.