> Almost every person I have ever met who hates Microsoft was either ignorant of the matters (meaning they just read what other people said and never had origin

> Almost every person I have ever met who hates Microsoft was either ignorant of the matters (meaning they just read what other people said and never had original thoughts) or had a specific beef in one area that they let inform their thoughts about the company as a whole. I don't hate microsoft as a whole. I hate COM+ office interop, and I hate that I'm forced to use this because of an internal dependency on Excel by the company that writes my checks. I hate that I have to have an entirely different approach to read the contents of an Excel spreadsheet then to write to one with office interop. All of that gets shorthanded to "I hate microsoft" when talking to co workers though.