I'm a programmer with a blog who likes to speak on technology. Sure, I promote the stuff I work on, because some of it is damn cool stuff.
I don't speak for Microsoft, I'm not a mouthpiece or a marketer. I'd say we're more concerned than a Google or Apple about how folks perceive us.
Moreover, I think that Microsoft is very aware of perceptions and is actively trying to counter them by actually being open. Is Microsoft circa 2014 worse than Google, Apple, or Facebook? We're not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to be as evil as you might think we are. Frankly, we're bending over backwards to NOT be dicks about stuff, at the very least in my corner of the company. We've open sourced Azure hardware specs, opening SDKs, and we're making systems more pluggable than ever. We're putting source on GitHub, many groups are using Git with TFS internally for projects, we've open sourced (not just source-opened) huge parts of. At some point you let go, and you start again with fresh eyes. I'm pissed about DESQView and my Newton, and Snow Leopard not running on my PowerPC. You're pissed about IE6, about FoxPro, about Silverlight, heck, maybe VB6. I know you all have stories about how you were wronged, but we all have those about various companies. But now, I've been here pushing open source and the open web for over 5 years and things are VERY different. But know this, I didn't work for The Man when all this went down, and I was as outraged as you were 20 years ago (assuming you were alive).
I fully expect the comments to be on fire later. I realize that you, Dear Reader, are a thoughtful and respectful lot, the Internet tends to be a bit of a motley crew. We've done some good stuff together." And he was like, "Cool." Do I hate Japan for World War II? My 6 year old wanted to know this as he's learning world history. This "generational technology pain" seems to persist long after the root causes have died. I wonder if I can swap out Chrome from Chrome OS or Mobile Safari in iOS. And for bundling a browser in the operating system that couldn't be uninstalled or easily replaced? Sure, no operating systems do that in 2014. "Hey, 10 years ago Microsoft did this." That was initiated in 1998 for actions in 1994. One person said that he was still mad about the Microsoft Anti-Trust thing. And my brothers Jethro, Hank, Hoss, Red, Peregrine, Marsh, Junior, Dizzy, Luke, Peregrine, George and all the others. "You killed my pappy," said the youth, "and my pappy's pappy. My elders hated Microsoft so I hate them. The ones I find the most interesting are the "Microsoft killed my Pappy" people, angry with generational anger. Sometimes I meet folks that are actively pissed or sometimes ambivalent. I was talking to a young (<25) Front End Developer recently who actively hated Microsoft.
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