Code comments

So, I was looking through some code at work. (May I remind you that I am not an official spokesperson of the company for which I am employed.) I came across this gem:

/* There is really NO eloquent way of calculating what the progress
* of a given method/task will be. One task may be downloading or copying a file while another
* one might be grabbing huge chunks of data for file creation. Since we want to see
* a progress indicator but can't determine this value, we'll simply play with it so it has the
* appearance of running; (i.e. we'll take it to 50%, execute the task, then come back and finish
* the progress upon completion.) This is a Microsoft STANDARD... I'm sure of it!
*/