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It's a terrible thing when somebody (Microsoft Engineer or not) tries to make sense of all the fact'less back n' forth about how much Microsoft sucks and they c
by alyx 13y ago
It's a terrible thing when somebody (Microsoft Engineer or not) tries to make sense of all the fact'less back n' forth about how much Microsoft sucks and they can't do anything right.
If more people stopped to think what the Master plan here might be, we would all be better off.
Instead we're entrenched in cold-war-like mentality of Apple-FRIEND, GOOGLE-FRIEND, SONY-BEST-FRIEND, ... Microsoft-ENEMY.
Microsoft stopped being a monopoly long, long time ago (in internet time), yet everybody still continues to hate.
- mey 13y agohttp://arstechnica.com/science/2011/08/users-treat-criticism-of-favorite-brands-as-threat-to-self-image/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/08/users-treat-criticism...
- TillE 13y agoIt's so strange. I don't think I could name a single company or even product that I'm not ambivalent about. I may prefer X over Y, but everything has irritating flaws. I don't pretend to be some emotionless paragon of objectivity. It's just...criticism is good. I try to even highlight my own flaws, so they can be addressed. It's far more useful than trying to ignore problems.
- Scaevolus 13y agoDo you also tend to feel ambivalent about political parties and religions? These feelings largely depend on whether you view the world in absolute or relative terms.
- MichaelApproved 13y agoA similar study was performed with religion. When someone attacked a persons religion, they felt like it was an attack on them.
- javert 13y agoI mean, MS helps governments spy with Skype, and now they want us all to have an always-on system in our living rooms with cameras and microphones? I'm normally the one defending MS, but come on. Unless I have my facts wrong about Xbox 1, Xbox 1 is literally doo doo.
- workbench 13y agoIE6, NEVER FORGIVE! NEVER FORGET!