None whatsoever, it's so blatant one can't help but wonder how the hell APC can be taken seriously considering some of its articles. Angus Kidman and his fantasticly ambiguous question 'Can IE's architect explain why it's so bloated?' is of particular note, which he kicks off by completely blowing his credibility:
My attempts to interview Chris Wilson, Microsoft's platform architect for Internet Explorer, appear threatened by technical difficulties even before the discussion begins. His temporary-conference-visitor speaker phone in Sydney won't work, then my computer crashes just before the interview starts, which in the sub-planet of Vista I'm forced to inhabit means a ten-minute reboot time.
Is he serious? ten minute reboot time? Does he realize, what with all his 'experience' that if you're having to wait ten minutes to boot up Vista then theres something wrong with the PC, not the operating system.
But you know, he gets off because he took a jab at Microsoft.
Of course he goes on,
There's nothing IE users like more than whining about performance and rendering problems.
I think he's mistaking Firefox fanboys and IE users here. I used to use Firefox until Vista and IE7 changed all that, but I don't whine about IE7s 'rendering problems' of which I haven't come across any. Of course I can't vouch for the millions of other IE7 users, but the mere fact I use the damned thing and don't whine about its supposed performance and rendering problems means his statement is null and void anyway.
Fixing this particular bug requires bizarre solutions such as switching off User Account Control, effectively meaning you have to choose between a browser that's more secure and a browser that actually works.
UAC is one of those things MS decided to use to give the illusion of extra security that is some how worth the pain would win them free rep points (which it did, sadly). Ironically the browser works fine UAC or not, so I don't know where Angus is coming from, might have his head up his ass too high.
Wilson is still talking as I fume. "A lot of the things that make IE larger are really that it's delivered as a set of system services that are essentially atoms for Windows. You can use just parts of the browser. It's componentised very specifically so you can do that.
Clearly Wilson has to sit back and listen to you rant and rave how open source is going to destroy Microsoft, as you were no doubt doing five years ago when Vista was going to be a completely closed system in which only a select few developers could make programs for. Of course that turned out to be bullshit, no doubt gaining traction from people like yourself.
OK, I'll try another tack. Given that the most obvious change in IE7 was the introduction of tabs, a feature rather obviously filched from Firefox, what feature from a rival browser would Wilson most like to adopt next?
Oh noes, Microsoft stealing from Firefox, how evil of them. I suppose Firefox was the first browser to have tabbed browsing? Oh you wish.
What are his thoughts, then, on Google's Gears initiative, which sidesteps the first problem by providing an interface that's basic but functional (rather than, say, needlessly bloated like Vista's Aero), and is working hard to solve the data issue?
Aero is bloated? I guess Apple and the Open Source community know how to be subtle with their UIs.
In conclusion, Misterrrr Angus is clearly a grade A moron, hoping to get some popularity from attacking Microsoft with unfounded or completely irrelevent points (sometimes both). 
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