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Re:Things Microsoft Still Does Well by veidr on Sunday February 09, 2014 @06:42AM (#7205205)
I think Asa is focusing more narrowly than you are. Both arguments are valid.

As a browser, MSIE 11 is vastly better than previous versions. They took what was just about the shittiest browser on earth, and made it more or less OK. (Although Firefox and Chrome are both better.) From that limited perspective, kudos to them.

As a corporation, though, Microsoft is still a toxic entity with poisonous effects on the ecosystems it participates in. It actively, brazenly works against the interests of the Internet user community as a whole, and those of its own customers. Microsoft the company is a bad actor on the scale of Oracle, Monsanto, Halliburton. So you're right, too.

Re:Things Microsoft Still Does Well by BSousa on Sunday February 09, 2014 @09:58AM (#7205709)
And Google isn't?

Seriously. They drop products faster than Paris Hilton changes her hair color. They are involved in multi million settlements due to throwing their users privacy rights under a bus. Do you really want a browser from a company that is only interested in violating your privacy for a few extra dollars? Why put MS in the same league as Halliburton but give a free pass to Google?

But kudos to Firefox thou, I don't use it normally, but form what I read and little I used, they actually care about the user.

Re:Things Microsoft Still Does Well by veidr on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:52PM (#7207755)
I didn't say anything about Google.

And, from what I can tell, Paris Hilton's hair color is pretty consistently blond: https://www.google.com/search?q=paris+hilton+hair+color&clie...