Re: This has been handled badly, but it's not beyond hope.
Honesty and Microsoft is an oxymoron.
Yes they may well invest in development and charge for their product but they've been playing dirty tricks for years; from using secret internal Windows APIs to outperform and/or break the competition, to inventing their own dog's dinner of binary blobs wrapped in XML and calling it an 'Open' format as a direct attack against the Open Document format that they could have embraced instead.
Microsoft has and always will go to great lengths to protect their market dominance and it don't care too much about who gets hurt in the process.
N.B. There were similar shenanigans in DOS where they are reported to have changed things just enough to ensure that a competitors product wouldn't work
Biting the hand that feeds IT
