Jerry Pournelle fights Bits and Fragments: .NET Weirdness and illustrates why Microsoft's .NET (the horror formerly known as Hailstorm) is more a joke than a threat.

I'll get to what caused the situation later in the column: A few minutes ago one of my XP Pro systems reset itself. When it came back up, I was told that the system had "recovered" from a serious error, and would I like to report that to Microsoft?

Sure, said I, and clicked the appropriate box. ...