Apart from the ...

'I just wish [MS] would then put one tenth of the same effort into making the sites, the downloads and the installations usable'

'As it is you find yourself enmeshed in a Kafkaesque nightmare of: go here and download this, add this patch, and read these installation instructions - which are almost but not exactly like the instructions you downloaded the night before.'

'And if all of this sounds bad, remember that this is only the downloaded - installation is yet to come'

In three days I went back to bare metal five times before everything was present and correct.'

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'This is not made at all clear on the CTP sites. Note that I'm not asking whether the information is there or not - I admit I didn't check every folder in every basement. It's doubtless there somewhere, but are these fundamental requirements stated clearly at the start of the download or installation instructions? No.'

'if you can't find your way through the maze, round the sleeping dragon and past Cerberus then you are not worthy. Having actually installed the stack and got it working, I feel that I deserve a T-shirt that says: "I survived the 2008 install, even if my sanity didn't".'

Unfortunately it looks like the author has suddenly decided to downgrade all the massive problems and start singing the praises.

Therefore, I agree that thet credibility is now zero and I wouldn't trust his final comments at all.