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Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft?
MrSplog asks: "I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society. A considerable part of this project has been looking into people's perceptions of Microsoft and the heavily negative bias of that perception. Since Slashdot is one of the world's forefront leaders on Microsoft hatred, I wanted to know: just why do you hate Microsoft? Please be as descriptive and as thorough as you like. Counter arguments and positive comments are also appreciated."
I hate Microsoft because Slashdot hates Microsoft. I read Slashdot. Therefore, I hate Microsoft because I read Slashdot.
Clippy.
A) Because the products aren't that good... They are often buggy and insecure,
B) They have way more money than me.
Either one of those is reason enough for me to hate them.
Randomly distributing Karma whenever possible.
Because when you ask Ms. Dewey a question about Linux Downloads she gives you crap about pirating MP3's.
How we know is more important than what we know.
No. Yes. Maybe.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
one could argue Microsoft products are shoddy because they support a mind blowing number of hardware configurations.
Yes, the absurdly high number of exploits in Microsoft's word processor, e-mail reader, and web browser (to pick just three out of many) is because of, you know, all those hardware configurations they have to support. Yeah, that's it.
Stupid design?
Why do people defend Microsoft so often?
They don't.
/me grabs the analogy and runs for the hills...
But then over the years, McD's introduces new meals and refines older meals. It starts to taste rather good and it's not all that bad for you. You're still wondering about the guys outside the doors handing out leaflets advocating their open food stalls; food that apparently taste wonderful and make you live forever. You try them out but find the food comes in those annoying plastic wrappers that have the "handy" tabs to open them that tear off before you actually manage to break the seal, forcing you to tear them open with your teeth. When you do finally get the packet open, you find the food isn't compatible with your fork and you end up trying to eat your peas off your knife. And they don't do McRibs.