I grew up hating M$, plus I'm British so we get the whole EU anti-trust thing to boot. But over the past few years Microsoft has made huge strides, especially

I grew up hating M$, plus I'm British so we get the whole EU anti-trust thing to boot. But over the past few years Microsoft has made huge strides, especially the work the two Scotts have put in. Huge amounts of source code open source, their PAAS running all sorts of OSes in VMs, etc. It isn't the late 90s any more, those that look askance at Microsoft these days seem rather old fashioned given the new shenanigans that are going on.