Why does Microsoft want to be hated?

[Davej]

It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why?

 

[Robin Bignall]

| It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why?

It just seems that way. I think it's caused by their utter inability tograsp why
people don't eagerly accept their having such superior intelligence as to know far
better than we do what we really want and need.

The same criticism was levelled at IBM in the 1960s. History repeating
itself?

 

[Don Phillipson]

It is clearly a corporate strategy. By why?

Because (in some markets) being loved or hated has no
effect on profitability, and the corporate goals are growth
and profits, not love.

 

[Davej]

Because (in some markets) being loved or hated has no
effect on profitability, and the corporate goals are growth
and profits, not love.

My favorites of the moment:

The pointless, idiotic, and counter-productive MSOffice UI redesigns, the default hiding of file extensions, default hiding of "excess" notifications, and the "expand the window if it touches the edge of the screen" facepalm.