If you had hundreds of millions of users worldwide, and developed a new platform that makes it far easier (from your point of view) to maintain and secure your applications and your customers' data - wouldn't you be doing everything you can think of to persuade them to move over?
No matter what MS does, there will be some people saying it hasn't changed. It's easy to interpret someone's actions in the worst possible way, if that's what you've been training yourself to do for 30 years.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
