I've been ranting a bit recently about wanting everything for nothing and then I saw Susan's article - http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/11/29/so-how-much-money-has-been-wasted.aspx - and it just goes further to say how much time is spent not moving forward, but going backwards.

I thought I would add to the list with the Microsoft-EU debate about Windows Media player.  As a Microsoft employee, to comment directly would be very, very bad - apparently the press might think I was expressing a Microsoft opinion and then either me or my employer could be in hot water.  So I won't really comment except to state some already published facts and that a huge effort went in to build a version of Windows without Media Player.  That is definitely spending money for the user to get less, but if that is what the user wants, then it should be built..... however it was announced that this version has sold well ... 1 in every 15,000 copies of Windows.  That version that has cost millions and was the centre of a multi-million case has been used by nearly 0.0066666666666666666666666666666667% of the purchasers of Windows... wow!!  Oh, and this is either my very personal opinion, or facts that are already published, so hopefully no law suit to follow.

ttfn

David