"Microsoft, who have lately been making some laudable efforts to embrace the hacker community." .... of course they are! They're wayyy behind Apple and Google,

"Microsoft, who have lately been making some laudable efforts to embrace the hacker community." .... of course they are! They're wayyy behind Apple and Google, and want to play catchup. If that means "embracing" the hacker community, so be it; except, of course, when the same hacker community tries to hack something where they're the market leader, in which case they'll release the hounds! Please don't be fooled by Microsoft's new-found religion. Once they have achieved market leadership, they'll be the first to throw the hacker community under the bus. And Microsoft isn't the only company with this attitude; I'd posit that the vast majority of companies are like this.