MS has managed to recover a lot of good will in the last half decade. That probably accounts for quite a bit of it. I know I've dropped a large part of my criti

MS has managed to recover a lot of good will in the last half decade. That probably accounts for quite a bit of it. I know I've dropped a large part of my criticisms. I'm even using Office and looking forward to my next laptop and Win 7. And 99% of what I do is simple tools that can be done in .NET with a few libraries from Codeplex and a little UI work.