http://boycottnovell.com.nyud.net:8080/2009/02/08/microsoft-evilness-galore/

I'd post snippets, but there's just too much good stuff. Really gives you an inisght into the heads at Redmond.

To be fair, I think most companies do this. I guess I should've made the title "I hate corporations." But then, it wouldn't really fit in the MS forum now, would it?

Awesome stuff! Im so proud of their achievements... (I dislike Apple)

I,hate Microsoft and love my xbox 360,...there ,s love

Maybe there should be a Microsoft goodness galore website as well?  Bill Gates' charity gives away $1.5 billion dollars a year.  Microsoft itself gives away millions yearly as well as what is given away by their employees and previous employees.  But people are free to paint the company as evil since they're only doing what companies actually do *gasp*. 

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/05/microsoft-donates-sp.html

Microsoft donates special 360 kiosks to children's hospitals
Posted by John Brownlee, May 5, 2008 11:58 AM

http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=5787&catid=531&typeid=6&subMenuId=0

Microsoft donates computers to Kenyan youth
30/06/2008 Nairobi

http://www.lienmultimedia.com/itnewslink/article.php?id_article=2345

Microsoft Gives 34 Schools $25,000 Computer Lab Makeovers

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Donates_to_Katrina_Rebuilding/1172539882

Microsoft Donates to Katrina Rebuilding

http://www.chicagodefender.com/article-2857-microsoft-donates-over-$26-m-in-cash-curriculum-and-software-to-the-chicago-urban-league.html

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Microsoft donates over $2.6 M in cash, curriculum and software to the Chicago Urban League

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/24/75850_HNmicrosoftdonates_1.html

Microsoft donates staff time to charity in Asia

http://designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=2057&monthview=1&month=8&year=2006

Microsoft Gives $41 Million in Software and Cash to Help Groups Better Collaborate in Times of Crises

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/4544266.html

Microsoft gives $6 million to better middle-school math

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/theater/287709_tf206.html

Microsoft gives a million to Performing Arts Center Eastside

http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2001archive/08-01archive/k080701a.html

Microsoft gives $7.2 million for new computer science building at UW

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=56900087

Microsoft Gives $3.5 Million To Tsunami Relief

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5553/is_200308/ai_n21554707

Aug. 21--Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont on Wednesday received a $1.3 million grant from Microsoft Corp. Wednesday, the largest corporate donation ever given to the charity.

http://www.scitech.gov.ph/butter.php?opt=3&n_sw=1&newsid=1378

MICROSOFT Philippines will give 10 million pesos in cash and a software grant to a non-profit organization engaged in anti-human trafficking activities in the Philippines, officials said.

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This thread lacks the picture proof:

I dislike Apple too...

Dislike the Apple guy always putting down the PC guy.

I want the PC guy to do a 'Revenge of the Nerds' on his ass

@Legend11

So? Almost all big companies do charitable works to boost credibility. However, the way Bill Gates acquired most of the cash was through illegal lock-in deals, antitrust, abuse of monopoly position and political payoffs. Also, his Foundation is a for-profit thing that makes investments in not-very-charitable companies too.

By the way, all of those school "charity" projects are creating future Windows customers where there influence is weak.

Microsoft is a great company to work for with a great campus. That said, there are some occasional shortfalls and layoffs and the like but overall it is OK. Plus they have the great DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!!

You can argue all you want about businesses guys. And at the end of a 500 page expose, people will always just say "it's business." It's an aggressive world.

The real question is, does the company produce something that's actually good? Most of Microsoft's stuff, in my experience, doesn't work as well as stuff made by other smaller teams for less money. With the exception of Xbox -- they've done a good job with that.