Meh. Microsoft's an extremely minor evil compared to many, if not most, on the national scale. Here we have a president whose campaign is planned to hinge on homophobic propoganda, and we're worrying about a corporation that does what corporations do. They don't do the best programming in the world, but... hell, Disney leaves MS behind when it comes to cutthroat business tactics.
All the problems with Microsoft are the precise same ones you see in any large corporation- stagnation, bureaucracy, the prevailing idea that some shiny new interface graphics are a far preferable alternative to increased functionality, impersonality, and inefficiency on a massive scale. Apple, for example, is very much the same. Linux, in all of its distros, has its own problems related to small groups of people (i.e. arcane interfacing functions, generally a few more bugs, limited availability and extremely short list of options for what to do with it, etc.). But you don't see anyone complaining about them. Why? Because Microsoft is a celebrity. Everyone knows about it, everyone has some (at least imagined) relationship to it, it's percieved as the "big dog", and our culture has this rather foolish ingrained belief that anything but the one on top is some embattled, idealistic rebel minority fighting for truth and justice and rainbows and puppy dogs and so on, while those who are percieved to have power are some ominous, actively malevolent group bent on destroying the Universe for no apparent reason. Like the entire universe operates like Star Wars. And, though that is often the case in real life (i.e. at any point ever in the entire history of politics, no matter who was playing which role), that doesn't mean it can just be applied at first glance to every situation ever. All those little corporations you see, given half a chance, would be every bit as mercenary and monopolistic as Microsoft- in fact, they try damn hard. MS happens to be it at the moment, but it won't always be, and in the meantime it's handy to have around.
