I don't mean to butt in, but I've read through the posts, and. . .

Argument or not, if a shill's job is to see to it that nothing critical of Microsoft goes unanswered--or rather, un-responded-to--then he's doing a heck of a job.

The downside from the shill's standpoint is that vying for the last word only elicits more discussion about MS.

The upside is that pat rhetoric is very effective on MS "true believers".

BTW, I know I'm using the word wrong, but do you ever wonder how the word "rhetoric" has come to carry a negative connotation?