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Oct 12
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Could People Learn to Love Microsoft Once More

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It wasn’t so long ago that Microsoft was considered a dirty word. Dare to defend the company and the outpouring of scorn was enough to leave you wondering whose puppy you’d just shot. To be honest, the software giant hadn’t done itself many favours. Its response to antitrust investigations stopped marginally small of confirmable paranoia, while Vista turned out to have all the charm of a broken bottle beingwaved around at a bar fight. Office 2007 was brilliant, but conspicuously so amongst a product list that could cure insomnia.

Microsoft seemed aimless, bereft of inspiration as its empire was systematically hacked to bits by Google, Apple and Mozilla. Yet two years later and it’s once again the toast of the tech push. Windows 7 is excellent, but one product isn’t enough to rescue an enormous company’s repubtion. What on planet has happened? Is it really okay to like Microsoft again?.

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