"I want to like the Microsoft that appears to be turning over a new leaf from their "evil" days." What appears to be "turning over a new leaf" may actually be

"I want to like the Microsoft that appears to be turning over a new leaf from their "evil" days." What appears to be "turning over a new leaf" may actually be nothing more than adapting to changing conditions. Of course they were not the ones who set those changes in motion, other than perhaps through evolutionary pressure. What Microsoft has done in more recent times has been largely driven by what other companies were doing -- making money from selling advertising, collecting vast quantities of data about users, etc. Not to mention using open source software internally, publishing source code and giving away software, often as a means to collect more data. That is why, e.g., there are ads in WorpdPad and telemetry is on by default.