Let's hear from Microsoft
I'd like to see some Microsoft employees weigh-in with an opinion about their products. It's easy to pan WinXX when you spend most of your time making good hardware work with a recalcitrant OS but who's fault is it? I'd like to hear from the people that actually write the Microsoft OS and applications. What compromises went into writing the code and why. It would be nice to read what ex-employees have to say as well. For all the pain that Windows can cause, it does get along well with an amazing variety of hardware. It seems to me that if some of the other hardware vendors put a bit more effort into writing stable drivers for their parts, the whole system would work much better. Or is Microsoft still too hesitant to release enough information so that hardware vendors can actually write good code? (HP scanners, tape drives and CD-RW's are my biggest pain)
