Do XBOX fans really respect Microsoft as a company?

[Fishie]

If MS did half the things Sony and Nintendo have gotten away with they would be crucified even worse then they already are.

I mean here we have a company whpo had to pay 800million to realnetworks because Media Player is included in Windows, a company that was fined several billions because they have a web browser integrated in their OS.
Why didnt Apple get sued for including not only Quicktime and Safari but a host of other apps as well that directly compete with what is out there?

If MS had killed companies like SCEI had(try to find out what happened to Park Place Productions) early on and just started buying companies to prevent them from publishing on other formats(Like Sony did with Psygnosis, they were sued by Sega as well as Nintendo BTW so Psygnosis had to fullfill its contractual obligations so some games were still released for Saturn and N64) or if MS had forced companies to only carry their products and no one elses and forbid developers from making games and publishers from publishing games on competing formats like Nintendo had done they would have been torn to shreds.

Microsoft is in a very difficult position, every move they make as a company is overscrutinised and things Nintendo and Sony have gotten away with MS would never be able to do.

Also, I dont get the Vista hate.
It does everything XP did while running better on my system(c2d/8600gt)while looking pretty and being more secure.
It doesnt lock up or screw up on me like XP and OSX did in the past and the pre fetching makes opening programs a snap(My Outlook 2k7 opens instantly while on XP it took about 15 seconds on the same system and since then the program because of the add ins and additional thousand or so emails has grown considerably).