No they don't have my respect. They may have done some things that I like (namely the Age of Empires series, Office and some of their OS') but on the whole many of their business practices are illegal and anti-competitive and when they get called up on it they just drag out the legal proceedings until the other company goes bust. When they do finally get punished, the punishment is barely a dent in their mass fortunes. They abuse their monopoly position in every way they can and they ARE a monopoly (>50% market share = monopoly).
Solely in terms of gaming I find it shocking that they've managed to convince millions to pay ridiculous amounts for heavily overpriced accesseries, pay a subscription to PLAY online when in the past and present it's free, released shoddy hardware with only a 3 month warranty and then convinced everyone that they're benevolent when they extended the warranty to 3 yrs due to potential legal action and finally getting rid of top developers that have been sucessfully making games for the company for many years. As much as I enjoy the games published by Microsoft, I'm shocked so many 360 gamers have convinced themselves that these are good things. MS must be laughing at the customers all the way to the bank whilst singing "Thank You Halo!".
Oh, and I don't realy respect Sony or Nintendo either, but I think MS as a company are the least deserving of my respect.
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