> They're still doing bad stuff today, just on different fronts. I mean no disre...

jacquesm · on Nov 12, 2014

That's going to be quite a list. The highlights:

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.

guardian5x · on Nov 13, 2014

Just out of curiosity. When did Microsoft bribe anyone in Germany? I have never heard about that.

yuhong · on Nov 12, 2014

I have my own wishlist:

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.

nileshtrivedi · on Nov 13, 2014

Patent threats and lawsuits against Android OEMs.

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).

bemused · on Nov 12, 2014

hm, maybe pass that question to someone from finland?

icantthinkofone · on Nov 12, 2014

The anti-trust result put Microsoft under US Federal oversight for 10 years. After 10 years, the Justice Department found Microsoft ignoring requirements they were supposed to supply them and extended that oversight for an additional two years which just ended in 2011.