And if you had seen me condone MS hating sigs you would have a point.  Not to mention his sig isn't even against Sony the company, but PS3 users themselves.  I don't condone any trolling sig.

Windows: Bad quality and high price are not a good combination.

Xbox: Why pay for Live? I get pretty much everything it has to offer for free on any other system. At least online multiplayer should be free as it is on every other platform. I guess RRoD and the usage of DVD have their part as well but they're not that bad.

Also, not sure about this but, I think I've read they bought rivalling companies (which usually leads to monopoly). I don't like this either but don't count this one being too important since I'm not sure at all about this.

My computer runs Vista.

So I have good reason to hate Microsoft, don't you think?

Good question.

I really hope you know Bill uses his "charity" fund to launder money....

also M$ has shown many times they do not deserve the grandeur they have.

The have shown that they cannot code operating systems past Windows 3.1. Every operating system ever released by them, including the 7 year sting of upgraded OS's, have had bugs, glitches, and or barely worked properly. Why does anyone hold XP as great as we do when Mac OS 7 was superior. Hell Mac OS 5 was superior. Dont even place Linux anywhere in the comparisons between Mac and Windows OSs Linux has been blowing past everything for ages. Everything Vista has, which is Mac OSX Tiger in a new skin, was done in Linux before the dawn of this millennium.

For console hardware they have proven that they cannot make hardware. The Xbox was well made but was bigger then a VCR due to the fact it was a PC inside a box. The 360 as we know have had hardware issues up the ars. DVD drives failing, Motherboard warping and breaking solder joints, and the occasional random access memory corruption (this happened during RROD situations due to the RAM overheating to bad). On software, they made it so that if a firmware update errors and bricks the console you have to send it off. WTF is that? The system should have an auto-reformat like the PS3. It isnt that hard to setup.

Frankly all I do is watch the OS market share charts and smile when I see windows slowly dropping in the US. And of course I;m always happy to see Microsoft failing in the server market.

lol me too, but it runs so smooth on my shitty PC. I think it's great.

I can honestly understand how someone can hate MS because of RRoD.... But not anything else. I think people have a right to be mad at sony, more or less.

then you missed my post. This is a microsoft forum which encompasses everything M$ does including OS's.

The reasons that I hate Microsoft (and probably everyone else who does) have little to nothing to do with the video game market, although some of their behavior in the gaming market is typical of what people hate about them.

Competition is a great thing if the competition is based on producing the better product, which Microsoft rarely does. They're pretty much unable to enter any market without product dumping, and they've accumulated so much money from their Windows/Office monopolies that they can afford to continue dumping until they're the only ones left.

Of course, you can perhaps grant them some leeway now, since they've become such a huge company that one hand doesn't know what the other is doing. The huge amount of money they have on hand now allows them to be more pro-consumer than they would have been in the past (case in point RROD - TMB "typical Microsoft behavior" would have been to tell everyone with a broken console to go pound sand. If it were not a hardware issue, where certain laws about merchantability apply, they probably would have)

Of course, if it weren't Microsoft it probably would have been someone else (maybe IBM - if IBM had never contracted out the OS for their PC to Microsoft, they'd be nowhere today)

In the most personal sense, the reason I hate Microsoft is because they ruined computing. I used to enjoy it, and I was planning to be a CS major in college. I graduated from high school right at the time Windows 95 came out, and it was becoming more and more apparent that I would have to deal with Windows - and I hated it. Perhaps it was my own mistake (if I had stuck with it until now, I might have been able to work as a Linux/OSX programmer today), but I absolutely despised what a steaming pile of shit Windows was, and at the time it seemed like it was the only option. I dropped out of CS after my first year because I just didn't like computing anymore. I went to being a science major, and now I'd perhaps like to get back into it but now I don't have the time considering I've already chosen a different career path.

I read something long ago that MS was intending to create a internet that was only usable by PC's that run Windows...Great that it never came true ^^'';