Why are Microsoft Customers Scared of Criticising Microsoft?

gsfprez asks: "This article documents the stories of three Microsoft customers (organizations that voluntarily buy Microsoft products) who are clearly unhappy with the product offerings of Microsoft - but are simultaneously petrified of this fact being made public. My question to the crowd is not regarding the subject matter of the article: rather, I want to know what is it that could scare a company away from telling a product vendor that they are unhappy and merely *considering* not buying their next product? Fear of reprisal (in the form of a software audit) is simple extortion...no? More ethereally - do we actually live in a world where MS not only 'demands' you buy their new products, but appears to have people pissing their pants at the thought of doing otherwise?"

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Same reason democrats are afraid of republicans

[joeler]

In America the powerful always abuse their power and just as the democrats are too afraid of the republicans to question the policies that have America where it is today, customer of Microsoft are afraid to challenge them. It's becoming a "Yes sir" type of America, take whatever they give you and thank them or elese they will destroy your lives, take away your jobs and leave you on the streets to fend for your next meal. These are facist times and the facists are in control, others will follow and not complain or be forced out in the cold. It's not unlike the old days in Chicago when Al Capone ran everything.