"...applications written in .NET) accidentally badly unregistered leaving all of the event log messages unreadable..." Don't even get me started on this... Mi

"...applications written in .NET) accidentally badly unregistered leaving all of the event log messages unreadable..." Don't even get me started on this... Microsoft is actually bad for this with even their own .NET-based enterprise applications. As well - it also makes gathering logs from production servers, then performing analysis on a different machine difficult, as that machine will likely have none of the dependencies required. Text... text and more text, that is universal.