[gecko]

I'm not exactly going to say that Visual Studio is heaven on Earth, but I can also say that I haven't seen unresponsive alert bubbles or HRESULT-based crashes since maybe 2005, and possibly the first version of VS.NET. I think you're being a little bit unfair here.

[taude]

I agree. While I'm totally Visual Studio free now (since I don't like running VM on OS X), I haven't seen this type of instability in a LONG time.