M$ Haters.....Why?

[Retrasado]

I don't HATE them necessarily, but I do strongly dislike them.

They copy other's ideas, they destroy once thriving companies and make them make BS updates to already crappy software, they sell you minor upgrades to products for $150, when they actually DO make a product that is at least functional, they go and mess it up (see Office 2007 for more info), they throw out crappy OSs and don't fix them, they try to dictate all software standards and if they haven't dictated them, they simply ignore them, they leave known errors in their software for years without fixing them (one security hole that affects ALL iterations of IE has been sitting on their report site since early 2006 and it's STILL not fixed), once they gain a monopoly, they don't do anything to advance/upgrade their product: (ex: IE1 released Aug '95, IE2: Nov '95, IE3: Aug '96, IE4: Sept '97, IE5: Mar '99, IE6: Aug '01, no competition after this point....... 1 year, 2 years, 3, 4, 5..... now there's competition; IE7: Oct '06, IE8: scheduled for early '09....), they don't fess up to their mistakes, they do a half-assed job when (IF) they fix their mistakes, they try to completely take over any market they don't already dominate, they never listen to their customers.

I guess the main thing that galls me is that despite their success, they really only make ONE product that actually deserves to have the market share that it does. And that product, Microsoft Visual Studio, is hardly a mass-market product.

btw, I think Bill Gates is a great guy. He seems like the kind of person every likes to hang out with and he has given well over $30 billion of his own money to charity. (He's WAAY better than that retard mexican dude who has like $60 billion and says he'll never give ANY of it away.... wondering what he'll use all that money for? so do I) However, despite Gates' generosity, as far as I know, M$ hasn't done anything similar as a company, so that argument is moot.