Microsoft has been pilloried for sloppy introductions of new systems (Vista, anyone?) that are bloated memory hogs, rife with bugs, full of security gaps, easily brought down by viruses, and expensive to boot (no pun intended).

So, now Microsoft wants to convince a bunch of notoriously independent cheapskate docs to use some industry standard system to collect and send individuals' health records to a central storage facility, where it will be accessible by other entities? Who will guarantee they won't lose it, confuse it with someone else's data, leave it accessible to some Eastern European hacker, corrupt it, or find some as-yet-undiscovered way to use technology to screw up health data?

This is not just losing a document or getting frustrated with applications that aren't compatible or suffering through yet another ctrl-alt-del episode. We're talking life and death here.

I'd like to see a lot better QC and QA before I trust my health records, and therefore my health, to these folks.