The product itself doesn't matter here. The way it was marketed, distributed, developed matters. MS did some bad stuff on all fronts, regardless of which software was involved. IE, Windows, Office, consoles all had their bad days because someone decided to force or bundle software in questionable ways. On the other hand there were some amazing projects done by MS teams: Singularity, security research (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/research-area/secur...), and many others.

Being pro/anti whole MS without exceptions is silly.

(also even new Office has a lot of "vestiges of the past")