Do XBOX fans really respect Microsoft as a company?

[TheBigFatJ]

Strategyking92 said:

Rock_on_2008 said:

I do not respect any of the three Sony, MS or Nintendo. They are there just to make money. They are all faceless corporations, they do screw customers over at times.

They do make good products though and I am willing to buy both Sony and MS products. Nintendo not anymore.

 

 Who would've guessed you would have the smartest answer.

 

It's fine to not respect any of them.  Who cares about them right? Until they do stuff that affects you or something important to you in a negative way. 

Microsoft does this a lot.  Sony does it quite a bit too, but Sony is more fragmented as a company than Microsoft.  Sony BMG, for example, is pure evil.  Both Microsoft and Sony steadily insult their competition, despite being outsmarted in most ways. 

Look at Ballmer's comments about Google: Microsoft is far too big, dumb and slow to compete with Google.  Google keeps rolling out great services, and Microsoft gets dizzy watching Google run circles around them.  Then Ballmer has the audacity to call Google a "not a company, a house of cards" and then states that Google is only a one product company when you consider successful products only. 

And that is ironic indeed.  Microsoft has only Windows/Office and all they've done since establishing that monopoly is failed.  And they've done questionable things, at best, to maintain that monopoly.