Well,

Firstly, I would say that we are members and personalities first, and moderators second. I would fully expect us to have differences of opinion between ourselves, like any other members, indeed, I think that it is healthy that members have differences of opinion................if everything were that "black and white" then we would have monopolistic products and not much of an industry?

Secondly, I do not see a problem with criticising a corporation or a product as long as it has a CONSTRUCTIVE basis . Otherwise I think you should downgrade comments to the "observation" status?

Take Microsoft, for example, I might appear to attack them?............no, I have no particular problems there.............I just question their sales/marketing approach. That means I also question the OEMs AND retailers? It is a multifaceted "industry" is it not?...............I cannot seriously blame MS for my drains getting blocked?.............

I have seen some very useful stuff on this site.............IronGeek and Doppy immediately spring to mind, but there are a lot of contributions from other members as well. Perhaps that should be on the CD/DVDs? or in a manual, or some sort of mixture of the two?

I have also been toying with the idea of some sort of questionnaire that you fill in during the installation process. Depending upon the answers you give, it will tailor the settings to what seems to be "you"

I distinctly remember the introduction of Windows 95 and the "home multimedia era"........the major OEMs had loads of help programs, files and the rest.............

I guess we have suffered from ten years of "bean counters" shaving costs in an expanding market?

Just another nihilistic diatribe