Pretty much any time I try to download anything from Microsoft's websites they are a mess and make almost no sense. Everyone who is a web designer and responsib

Pretty much any time I try to download anything from Microsoft's websites they are a mess and make almost no sense. Everyone who is a web designer and responsible for web design at Microsoft should be fired immediately. One example of Microsoft's ridiculousness is their hosted Exchange services -- http://www.microsoft.com/online/products.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/online/products.aspx I signed up for it some time last year. I couldn't get it to work with Outlook 2010. Their answer, call tech support. I don't sit on the phone to talk to just anyone, and I damn well don't sit on the phone to make hosted web services work with a companies desktop platform. Another example is Microsoft Adcenter. Adwords was more advanced in 2005. A 6 year time gap for technology is unheard of. Virtually impossible for them to play catch up at this point. Their desktop software, Adcenter Desktop, running on their own operating system, Windows, crashes all the time. Ooops. The usability of the Adcenter web interface compared to Google's is like receiving a massage verse walking on glass. Its painful. The sad thing is, Microsoft sits on a pile of very very valuable assets. Even with slightly above average management their business could stand to benefit enormously from Google's antitrust problems. The adcenter platform should be free money raining from the sky for them. But it won't be. And that is too bad because we need real Google alternatives.