This entire thread is depression and responses like this are pure depression. Why does any of this matter? All I see are a bunch of apologists or a bunch of p

This entire thread is depression and responses like this are pure depression. Why does any of this matter? All I see are a bunch of apologists or a bunch of people making assumptions and no one really discussing anything without their extreme bias and prejudices in the way. The first comments here are people bashing the Microsoft of 20 years ago.. And this one... "The Verge sounds very Pro-Microsoft" - for no other reason than to perpetuate the bias here. Why do we do this to ourselves people? This is absurd. The Verge is very much in love with Apple, they're not in love with Google. That doesn't make them Pro-Microsoft. The verge DID hire a a fantastic Microsoft writer who knows Microsoft inside and out, so they're not Oblivious to Microsoft - but that doesn't make them "Pro Microsoft". And for Christ's sake - NONE of what is mentioned here makes Microsoft bad. They're a business making products and building services doing what businesses do and its certainly not Balmer's Microsoft anymore. Who cares what Google isn't happy with when its painfully apparent no one is is happy with anything around here...