The art of observing, deducing and guessing what is really happening within a secretive organization. (So called from the Kremlin, headquarters of the topgovernment leaders in the Communist era Soviet Union.)
In the article, the Times applied a little Kremlinology to investigate why Windows Vista had gone so horribly wrong.
A cretin is a person that is stupid and has donesomething of significant stupidity. However it can be used as a general insult not the strongest of insults but still an under appreciated word
Can be used to describe a stupid action example:
" did you hear Jamie's gone and got chlamydia"
"What an absolute cretin/kretin "