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Re:Why I'm Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User ... by rbanffy on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @11:10AM (#2327810)
> If you're getting downvoted for bashing MS, then you must be doing something wrong, like being way off base with your hate or something.

No joke, sadly.

While I get carried away sometimes (Windows has improved a lot since my windows 2003 days, WP7 is neither "Vista Phone 7" nor "WinMo 7") I see very frequent downmods when I paint Microsoft technologies in unfavorable light, most of them occurring early in the morning PST (I live in GMT-3, so I post a lot before US west coast wakes up). Since I have been very active these days, most posts where this happened are buried deep in the threads pages and may take some time to unearth.

To be fair, I also notice some backlash when I paint Apple in unfavorable colors too.

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Re:Why I'm Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User ... by recoiledsnake on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @12:44PM (#2328248)
Well, I've seen most posts/stories critical of MS going up highly.

Not so for Apple comments/stories.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800253

http://mattmaroon.com/2010/11/23/i-quit-hacker-news/

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Re:Why I'm Close to Giving Up on Windows Phone 7, as a User ... by rbanffy on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @06:00PM (#2329621)
It really depends. When I criticize Windows, its innards, .Net or C#, I get consistent downvotes. Less consistent when I criticize Sharepoint (which makes sense - nobody likes that monstrosity). Internet Explorer, OTOH, gets little love from everyone and seems even less popular than Sharepoint.
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