Comment Re:Windows Phone (Score 1) 227
What... hang on, really? We all hate Microsoft because they came out with a free browser? I'm.... at a loss for words. So.... we don't hate Opera for coming out with a free browser, or Google, or Apple, or Mozilla or Mobotap? Only Microsoft?
Here, let me connect some different dots.
a) Lots of us here in Slashdot are in IT.
b) This means that a high percentage of us have had to either do work-for-pay using Microsoft products, and/or been assigned Microsoft devices to use, and/or have had to support Microsoft products and/or devices. If you're in IT, you have a high likelihood to have had deep experience with Microsoft products in one way or another. Est donc le cas.
c) We're all just damned sick and tired of dealing with Microsoft's crappy products. The back end products are tolerable, but holy crap, the rest is junk.
d) We all hate Microsoft because we hate having to use and/or administer their products, and we deeply resent the various necessities that force us to. It really is that simple.
e) Profit! (I don't know how that part works, but lists like this always end this way.)
Mind you, nobody hates absolutely everything about anyone. I find Win7 tolerable, for instance, although I freely admit to a burning hatred for Win8. (And yes, I've tried it. I own a touchscreen laptop running Win8. Well, I say "running" but we haven't booted it in awhile.)