Does anyone else hate Microsoft?

[Calobi]

Calm logic and a cool head.

I like you. Just letting you know that.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Uh... No... They make my most used console, my OS, many of my programs on my computer, and my MP3 player. None of which have ever given me any serious problems.

 

[iggyus]

More information pertaining to your reasons would be nice OP. Also, do you mean Microsoft the OS maker, the game designers/producers, the hardware portion, or some combination?

Edit:

Only the terminally retarded. The rest of us have better things to hate.

Like Psychic Chimps.

So you know about them too?!? Everyone I try to talk to about them claim I'm crazy and try and make me take those horrible pills. But I know what I know, and I know they're real. I've gotten really good at not swallowing the pills, too, so I'm not hazy like when I was taking them. I see the monkeys. I know I do.

You guys see them too?!!! OMG they are FKIN EVERYWHERE!!! They are scratching on my windows and in my closet. They exist, no pills are going to save us!!!

 

[Lyri]

My Xbox just bricked and their support page is down for maintenance, you could say I'm a little annoyed with them.
Yes.

 

[Clashero]

Only the terminally retarded. The rest of us have better things to hate.

Like Psychic Chimps.

No, because hate is a waste of time, and even if it weren't, it's hard to hate something that hasn't lit your friends on fire and cut off your arms.

Im with these guys, those psychic chimps lit my friends on fire so now i hate them instead...

Seriously though, whats the point of just sitting there hating a corporate entity? What are you going to do anyway, besides just complain? Wouldnt hating them make you want to spend less time sitting around thinking about them?

And quite possibly using an OS developed by that same company? THE PLOT THICKENS

 

[megapenguinx]

Why are you angry at them?
The only grief I have is that sometimes their console is a little too noisy.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I don't hate Microsoft, I hate Apple.

 

[Valiance]

Of course.

Forced obsoletion, burying technology, burying/buying competition, not improving anything, not having competition/incentive to improve anything, etc...

 

[Yoshi-Pop]

Windows Vista is the sole reason I'm the grizzled piece of shit who post hear from day to day.

 

[Joeshie]

Not really no. I prefer Windows to OSX and prefer their console to Sony's and Nintendo's.

 

[darthzew]

No, in fact I'm liking them more and more as I go. Everything is become so integrated on all of Microsoft's software and hardware. They're genuinely starting to put thought into stuff.

I honestly can't wait until the next Zune. I don't expect a web browser but stuff like Facebook integration is a real possibility.

 

[Bob Saget]

I hate them with every fiber of my being. I'm pretty much using their OS against my will until I can get Wine (the Windows emulator) running in Linux. I also don't own an Xbox, since I like playing online for free, and I prefer not to have terrible tech support. By the way, that wasn't a pro-PS3 thing, since I don't own one of those either, so no flamewars please. I also don't like Apple any better either, so yeah.

 

[FalloutJack]

Yes, I do.

*Pause*

Oh, you want to know why. Sorry, you never said. Ahem...

Microsoft, created by a computer genius who's now so rich that the only people that can compete with him are other insanely rich computer geniuses. (Sorry, Steve. That's how it is, yo.) I have no idea what Bill Gates wants out of life. He doesn't need to actually DO anything with his life anymore, because he's personally worth more than Fort Knox. (That's both the gold and whatever it takes to support the installation and all employees there combined.) He could honestly just give away his Windows programs and products for the rest of his life and it wouldn't matter.

Unfortunately, his company is like an amoeba thrown in reverse, absorbing everything to get bigger. And what it's selling? Eh, it's nice but...I think Bug City is probably a good name for the software, seriously. I hear horror stories about it from my older geeky brother. Couple that with such a loving phrase as "planned obsolescence" and you have problems which will last about...forever. But hey, how about that tech support? "What tech support?" Exactly! Lemme tell you, if you get a guy on the Microsoft tech support line who's got an Indian accent and called Bob? Tell 'im I said hi.

So, what's to hate about Microsoft? Well, everything I said plus all the people buying into it faster than a sale at Walmart. Ta', for now.

 

[A random person]

Only the terminally retarded. The rest of us have better things to hate.

Like Psychic Chimps.

You know, it's people like you who hold back humanity with prejudice and hate. Psychic Chimps may be psychic and chimps, but why does that give you the right to discriminate against them?

But seriously, other than some frustration with Windows (I'll say this: user profiles are not as good an idea as they thought they were) like everyone has, I don't really hate them. No real reason to.

 

[Jamash]

I have nothing in particular against BigHard

Why is Microsoft turned into "BigHard"? That better not be going by Bill Gates.

I wish gaming had more freedom over OSs other than being stuck on Microsofts, but other than that they don't really effect me.

Micro is the opposite of big, soft is the opposite of hard.

Small is the opposite of big.

Micro is the opposite of Macro.

 

[Julianking93]

Yes. They make shitty quality hardware.

360 has the worst fucking failure rate along with all their computers.

They have the potential to be great but they keep releasing all this cheaply made shit.