While you'll find many who legitimately complain about Microsoft's products, I think you'll find very, very few folks around here who were actually burned by EE

While you'll find many who legitimately complain about Microsoft's products, I think you'll find very, very few folks around here who were actually burned by EEE :-) Most of the hate seems to come from people who: a) are open source fans and didn't like Microsoft's stance on their religion of choice (which was actually not EEE); or b) worked for companies that competed unsuccessfully with Microsoft; or c) just parrot what they hear from people in groups (a) and (b) because they don't know any better. It would be interesting to poll HN to find out who got actually burned by EEE and how.