This is a matter of opinion, but here is my take: Microsoft has single-handedly delayed the progress of the Internet for over a decade. We have a very confusing

This is a matter of opinion, but here is my take: Microsoft has single-handedly delayed the progress of the Internet for over a decade. We have a very confusing environment, which we are painfully leaving behind, simply because they tried to own the Internet. What is the world GDP impact of trying to overcome the incompatibilities of IE? And they have tried to tamper with my individual rights to use the computing platform I choose. Remember "Linux is a cancer", and bullying of manufacturers not to offer Linux? Where are my Linux laptops, please? I attribute 90% to the blame to Microsoft (and yes, I have a Linux laptop, no Microsoft tax attached. But the choice was very narrow) For these reasons, even if tomorrow Microsoft announces the cure of cancer, I will despise them with all my strength. For decades to come. For the rest of my life. There is no undoing the harm they have done to humankind. The only positive outcome, from my point of view, is for them to disappear as a company, and for their products to die (obviously, a very long death). Microsoft will never offer a product I want. It is really that simple. And Apple is on a worse track.