Stacker: 20 years ago. IE Antitrust: 10 years ago. SCO: 10 years ago.
The last ruling in the SCO case was a mere 4 years ago.
I mean no disrespect, but what's the bad stuff being done my Microsoft today?
Abusing their patent portfolio directly, ditto through proxies, continued attempts to subvert open standards, bribery to use Microsoft software in various third world countries (and in Romania too, and Germany for that matter) and many others besides but those alone would be enough to not make me go back to using their development platform.
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2014/08/my-wishlist-for-satya.h...
It also includes things MS has done in the past that is not too late to fix.
Locking down computers using UEFI Secure Boot and taking control away from the owners of the machine.
Sabotaging the office document standard process at ISO.
Corruption in cases where governments explored switching to alternative operating systems.
Working against software patent reforms.
All these happened within last 5 years (and continue to happen).
Hatred?
I simply decide not to buy into a certain company's products and services because I recall some misdeeds from the past and that's equal to hatred?
As for what they have done, I thought Microsofts history was chronicled enough that it doesn't need repetition, especially not on a website for 'hackers'.
But if you need pointers, you can go visit groklaw.net (if it is still up) to read about SCO and Linux, you can read up on the Stacker case and you can try to figure out why Microsoft ended up in court over IE and a long list of other not so nice things they did in the past.