On Microsoft and Windows

Don't get me wrong. I don't 'like' Windows. In fact, I'd actually be totally fine with living in a world where Windows never existed and Microsoft had died out with the end of MS-DOS. But I really don't get why people bash it so much. I mean, it's pretty well documented, and they've got pretty solid APIs for doing just about anything. What's everyone's goddamn problem?

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I mean, it's pretty well documented
I've encountered a lot of plain wrong documentation over the years, and Microsoft does keep things under wraps and use it themselves.

they've got pretty solid APIs for doing just about anything
Microsoft's current API (for any API) is always a wrapper atop a wrapper atop the win32 API, which is an extremely outdated and shitty API. It's so bad it rivals X11.