Definitely. It's hard to sit comfortably with passages like "Unfortunately, for Microsoft and .NET, I left the company in 1998. The .NET team made a number of significant mistakes."
Yeah, especially considering how much more of a nightmare COM and the rest of the .NET predecessors were which he was involved with, as compared to .NET, which he wasn't.
Maybe he's spot on, maybe not. But one thing is for sure; his story does not contain a trace of humility.