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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It's so bad it rivals X11.
Hahahaha, made my day sir!

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We all know a lot of arguments about MS is just hate, but...
Have you ever used anything before C# and .NET? Like Windows 9x, Outlook and Office < 2000, Win32 API, MFC and Visual C++ extensions?

They still do a lot of crap, but at least they've brought the NT kernel to userland, replaced C++ with a much better C#, and released a lot of goods with theirs .NET, WPF and XNA.