Can you EVER actually rate a MS product as doing well? All you seem to do is bash MS for the sake of doing so, it's kind of sad actually that you can't acknowledge a product might not be the 'best' but be the most popular in many situations or even that a product is good on it's own merits and not digging the makers of it at the same time.

In my particular field, I'd say Exchange has done very well. And, mostly, because it's a very decent product. Case in point : we have an exchange system with roughly 5,000 people on it. Today, two of the exchange servers rebooted themselves (some nerk had switched 'do patches whenever you feel like it' on ). Nobody even noticed. The servers that were up took over, no loss of service at all. I had a bit of work to do after the servers came back up but pretty much, we had a major outage that caused no loss of service whatsoever. I call that quite impressive.

Now, if I was to compare it to, say, Blackberry Enterprise Server, now there you'd get a lot less praise and a lot more swearing.

Some of their hardware has always been good too - they've done arguably the best 'mainstream' mice for donkey's years.

Jon

Ooops You are right.

You got there before me. That response reads like an anti-MS rant. I used to work with someone like him.

I took my own (fairly old) Intellimouse in to use at work because the Dell ones are useless in comparison and uncomfortable to use

Same with the keyboards, very good build quality at fairly low prices too

For those who think Microsoft do "Hotmail" well...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/10 ... e_answers/

It has had its ups and downs. I currently hate the problems with the need to have it allow third parties cookies accepted.