Not a Xbox owner, but I respect Microsoft and I like Windows.

I don't respect Microsoft. I use them for my own purposes, and then I toss them some money. You shouldn't have given it up so easily, Microsoft. Now, I can never respect you.

No.. not really.. its Microsoft

 For Nintendo the Virtual Boy and NES Disc System, Sony the early Playstation 1, early Playstation 2 and the biggest one of em all the PSX(so bad that despite plans to launch it in the west and three relaunches in Japan it was never distributed here).

i dont understand how you can like microsoft....

There are other reasons to respect or not respect a corporation other than simply hardware reliability. Everyone that complains on Microsoft's monopoly seems to conveiently forget how Nintendo strong armed third parties into exclusivity contracts in the 1990s. Why do you think almost every third party jumped into Sony's arms the first chance they got? There's also that report that came out last year showing Nintendo's abysmal envionmental practices with disposing of waste. Didn't they score a 1 out of 10 or something?

How about Sony shutting down that internet site Lik Sang or something just because they sold Japanese PSPs to Europeans? Also Sony doesn't always have grade A technology and you would know that if you owned any of their consoles other than the PS3. Both the PSOne and PS2 came with issues, and I don't remember getting any extended warranty when my PS2 laser had to be realigned because Sony allowed third parties to create different weighted DVDs that screwed with the alignment, like blue ones, gold ones and silver ones. How about Sony's inability to reach a conclusion with Immersion, causing them to lie about rumble's exclusion in the Sixaxis, which in the end, put more money in Sony's pocket and pissed off gamer's that now felt they needed controller replacements.

The point is, none of them are shining beacons of honesty and good practices. They all have faults, so either respect them all with their faults, or don't respect any of them. In their gaming divisions I think Microsoft is trying the hardest at getting a great library for 360 owners, by any means necessary. That's all that matters to me is the games, and they've delivered again and again.

yeah i respect microsoft

I dont understand why some people care so much about the companies. I mean this as no offense to anyone, it is just something that I dont understand. Even with my most favorite movies, books, games etc. I rarely pay attention to who makes them. A lot of the times I find myself playing games from the same developer and sometimes

I think it would save me time to just see what games this particular developer made and play all of them but I found that a lot of the times developers, writers, directors and others lose their touch after a while and people continue to play their games or read their books or watcher their movies regardless just because it has that author's name on it.

So no I like Xbox360 but I could care less about Microsoft as long as it doesnt affect the 360.