l a u r e n wrote:
their track record just doesn't inspire confidence in me
I'd second that vote. Microsoft and I go way back, pre-Windows to present, and only three products have been worth noting - Win95 (the first version that actually worked), Win2K (which was the first reasonably secure version), and Win7. Everything in between was broken, defective crap, or in the case of XP, a huge bug fix with a (happily) defeatable children's UI. I don't expect them to get 2 in a row right, but if they do, I'll cheer them on. :-D
Will Rogers never met me.