Hi Donna,
Yes, I work with MS CMS every day and find it to be, frankly, a pain in the ass. It's slow, and the WYSIWYG editing is clunky (stripping out useful and valid HTML attributes, using font tags under the hood and generally being unfriendly to stylesheets) and it has more features than I could ever use. I doubt I'll ever touch the workflow component since it won't match the efficiency and gentle learning curve of email. The page/channel/resource metaphor requires some learning, and I can see how it can be useful in very large sites. But the extra power it offers ends up making simple tasks more difficult.
The implementation of Zope I used for Active Edmonton was much simpler and more efficient. There was a WYSIWYG editing tool, but it worked with stylesheets and still gave you full control over the HTML if you needed it (that's not native to Zope, though). Also, the development team--Emergence by Design, http://www.emergence.com --could add or adjust features rapidly. It was just the right amount of content management for the task.
Some of my complaints about MS CMS might be addressed through better implementation. Although the slowness and suckiness of the WYSIWYG editing widget seem built in.
Cheers,
Gene
