I wish I could dig it up in the way back machine, but there was a period in the early aughts where Microsoft employees blogged religiously (on orders from corporate).

Anyway, a group of them discussed lobbying the US government to charge Linus Torvalds and Eric Raymond for securities fraud, alleging that people promoting open source software were actually engaged in a pump-and-dump scheme for companies like VA Linux (a dot com company that crashed and burned)

To me this perfectly encapsulates Microsoft’s attitude of that era. It’s all there right in a bunch of early aughts blogs.