Mirosoft's ASP library is insanely full of holes. They rarely do update to keep up with actual good industries and their standards. Instead they use there weight to jiggle the industry so much that it has been proven to retard the growth of software development. Their support is minimalistic, with something over 1k known issues for xp still looming out there.

It strives on the fact that people can use it. That anyone can use it. Anyone can program with their languages with little training. That is not a good thing, when something gets so modular and remains a behemoth of speed and lack of quality, you begin to see breaks. This is what the ASP model has gone through, and their IIS can just kiss my ass. I am really against a lot of Microsoft technologies, but I know them, cause I need to. As long as they are able to sell em to management (with commercial appeal) then I better support em .

Word is actually a fairly ok system, but there does need to be better made out there. Open Office is close, and it is getting there. It can mail merge and preform so many office related duties, it is not funny. At a NOREX meet recently, they went over the feasibility of using Open Office in a corporate environment - and there were supprisingly a number of businesses that did so. Really, M$ is just trying to be beside themselves; and in the end, they will reap what the sewed. I am just hoping that Ozzie knows of a good way to turn the company around, cause as far as I am concerned, their old leader ship is nothing but criminals.