I'm a software engineer student so I work a lot with Microsoft professional tools but I'll spare you my opinion and give you the consensus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend_and_extinguish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
You won't find that kind of articles on Sony and Nintendo. They have done bad things but they were put in their place. MS hasn't been yet...
How many cups of darkness have I drank over the years? Even I don't know...







