MS is not that bad
Having market share of 90% and more on the desktop leaves its marks. They are used to selling licenses to the mega corps by the billions, together with boat loads of windows server revenues.
The consumer was always a by catch, an entity who did not have much choice anyway, since the combined marketing power of Wintel and the likes of Dell, HP, Toshiba ASUS and others who were selling PC's with the obligatory Windows tax unchallenged for decades.
Now the consumer has a choice in how to access the internet, MS realizes it has to work to win the hearts and minds of non corporate entities in order not to lose this by catch. Maybe they will improve, and try to bring fun and easy to use products, instead of giving users this voodoo experience when using their user interfaces. It will be interesting if they manage to descend from their throne in order to find out what the commons think, and translate this into products which are fun to use.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
