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 easily and openly 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
What is your list? What do you think?