SharePoint - unbelieving bad

In a blog post Microsoft? announces a plan for 'stop using SharePoint for application development'. This is not one day too early. I have from the very first day I came in contact with SharePoint development criticized SharePoint as a platform for IT applications, it is appallingly bad and buggy, and I have said so, (not always popular among colleagues and managers in the company I previously worked for). Now Microsoft states Sharepoint was stretched far beyond what it was originally intended to do. Indeed true so true, the problem I have with this statement, both MS sales representatives and some MS premium consultants have during the years promoted SharePoint as the platform for small and mid sized applications. This has led many organisations to spend large sums on developing crap applications.

Anyway I (and many with me should) feel vindicated by the MS blog post, and it is a good thing MS is so candid about SharePoint. The question is, should we trust Microsoft now when they claim the successor is a fine platform for applications? I prefer to test the product first. After all SharePoint as an application platform is definitely on my top three list of crap software, unbelieving bad.

P.s. I'm not sure but I think the blog post is from Microsoft, if not disregard I commend Microsoft for being open and honest about the shortcomings of SharePoint.