You know, that's a lot of words to ask everybody to read, with precious little pay off. I just finished reading the whole thing, and I'm going to recommend that you skip it.

It boils down to an egotistical hypocritical jerk uses fights over the Silverlight marketing website and strategic plan to try to illustrate problems with the Silverlight project, but fails to make any useful points other than that there was some corporate infighting.

This simply isn't a good article, please don't vote it up, and I recommend you don't waste your time.