Agony

                
                https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5712372
> "Inherent hatred for Microsoft and anything it does, even if it is good. I think is pretty sad since I see this attitude from people that should be objective from a technical standpoint"
I have the inverse feeling: recently, just because at MS some people got a catch on a new fashionistas UI, and gave it a sexy name (flat UI), I have read a lot of praise for this company, as if it was something someone could wish that their tablet or mobile OS would get back on the front of the scene.
This just shows how shallow are the memories of us, developpers. So let's restate it vigorously:
MicroSoft is deservedly hated for extremely grave sins against the industry commited not so long ago.
They regularly force OS upgrades nobody wants even when the failure is patent, and their software is so unmanageable that most PC users have become like beaten dogs begging for the minimal working setup, admiring those who know how to ctrl-tab to another window, fearful of any changes in their software installation, inculated from viruses by rootkits that even more harmful than what they are supposed to protect you against, and the only action they dare take beside reading email is to reboot, and take a coffee break.
They, MicroSoft, also imposed a central crappy software (IE 6) on their monopolistic OS, and used this position to try to smother the big waves we are all surfing on: the Internet itself. They purposedly tried to strangulate the distributed network, because it was not going to bow and contribute to the church tax.
No, Internet's fate was not granted, it could have become a TV-like network of a few content providers like AOL feeding users through the nose. Actually, it is still under attack, also from other threats, many of them having grown on its roots.
MicroSoft is a mammoth, she will endure a very long death, but let's have the minimal pity, and let's not make this agony longer by unduly praising their latest relative PR success.
End of the rant.