Bottle post #3: anti-Microsoft

Something thats been running in my head:

Well, it seems now fashionable to hate Microsoft, strangely the one who made most of the stuff we are using, like the Windows OS, Microsoft Office and other stuff.

With the recent article in Time about Google, and further articles about Google in other places, it has become a very hot talking point, and weirdly, one common comment I hear is "I hope Google doesn't become like Microsoft". It seems fashionable now to hate Microsoft, love Google, love Apple, and other seemingly anti-Microsoft establishments.

It reminded me about when I was doing the 3d modelling project with Leon in Sec 2 for the Kool Kids project. One German guy we met, had to tell us the basics of making the Virtual Interface thingie so we could use it to explore the virtual 3d model of the New National Library we made. While telling us about it, I forgot how, he kept on slipping in anti-Microsoft comments, which seemed delightfully unique to us Sec 2s at that time. (He used Linux, apparently).

And it seems that there is a growing, but small number of Apple haters, commenting on how they rip you off, blah blah, et cetera. Is that a trend?

Maybe its not the companies, but us.

Maybe one day we will hate Google. Lets see.