Still, this piece of FUD smacks of extreme laziness, nothing more. Perhaps their editor is just as lazy?
Oh, it IS FUD and laziness. Molly Wood is a notorious Microsoft supporter, much more than KwasiOwusu and Bush2000.
That said, CNet doesn't usually write much in the way of pro-Microsoft articles, so they probably figured in the wake of IE7, Microsoft deserved some blatant backing. Or something.
There really isn't a very good tech news site out there. At least, none that I can find. A lot of them are still very unprofessional--I cite Wired again, because Wired is the worst damned website on the Internet, edging out Something Awful.