Pages with comments about the company people love to hate. But for now the Company supplying the software on most new consumer Personal PCs.
They have produced software for the non-professional user who is more concerned with making the computer work with ease, and provides a comfortable, usable interface to do that.
Professionals seem to be mixed in their acceptance of Microsoft and its products, particularly those who run Enterprise software.
Competitors exist and are challenging Microsoft's former dominance in the marketplace.
Microsoft's recent strategy seems to be one of accommodation and inclusion, as displayed by recent corporate agreements and the Dot Net Framework. Whidbey (Windows2005) is the latest of the products and will likely continue this strategy.
This reads like Astro Turf. -- Ben Tremblay
Edit Hint: the category is getting too big to visual list-scan (unless you have Fast Eyes). Perhaps this category topic could split existing MS topics into groups similar to:
Specific Products
Desktop products
Server & enterprise products
Languages & development tools
Pro-Microsoft topics
Anti-Microsoft topics
General philosophy about Microsoft
Other
Overlap is okay.
See also Microsoft Monopoly And Pricing
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