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This is the PC forum, people are attacking Microsoft in this thread for their history of monopolistic, embrace-extend-extinguish behaviour in operating systems and other PC software. As far as I'm aware neither Sony nor Nintendo have done the same in the same area- if you know different then start a thread about them.

Personally, I couldn't give a toss about the pathetic console fanboy wars on here and elsewhere- it's just insecure teenage wankers desperate to validate their own purchases. I'm a web applications programmer and PC gamer and use Microsoft software exclusively day-in, day-out. I wouldn't touch anything from Sony with a bargepole after the rootkit fiasco, and I think Nintendo have been very lucky to get away with a gimmick and re-releasing the same old set of franchises yet again. Yet even I can see how bad Microsoft have been in the past and why it's necessary to keep an eye on them in the future.