Microsoft Failures & Successes

I will give no explanation, because I think they speak for themselves, but here are some failures & Successes from Microsoft. Failures (not wasting my time on these, they just don’t let me opening code good ORM, Patterns, etc. period) * Typed DataSets * SharePoint 2003 & 2007 * New Entity Framework * MS CRM Successes * C# 3.0 * .NET 3.5 * VS 2008 * ASP.NET MVC Preview * LINQ