Empirical evidence since 1995 strongly points to that conclusion.

Still, I must admit, I haven't seen a registry problem in about 10 years. It strangely coincides with the time I stopped using MS products for anything important. Maybe the two things are somehow related, but I couldn't tell, since correlation doesn't imply causation.


Seriously though, the idea behind it is all good intentions, it's just the implementation and subsequent usage by 3rd party applications that's gone bad.