>It's really difficult to repair reputational damage.
The people who scream "Micro$oft" and "Windoze" are a vocal minority, most respect Microsoft and Windows for what they achieved and contributed (and continue to) to personal computing.
Even the whole IE6 debacle was, in hindsight, Microsoft demonstrating hands on what happens when a monopoly is left to its own devices; a lesson the personal computing world apparently failed to appreciate given the monopoly that is Chrome.
Incidentally, the Chrome monopoly is poised to further its grasp with what looks like the opening up of iOS and the subsequent death of Safari. Netscape and Firefox are rolling in their graves.
The people who scream "Micro$oft" and "Windoze" are a vocal minority, most respect Microsoft and Windows for what they achieved and contributed (and continue to) to personal computing.
Even the whole IE6 debacle was, in hindsight, Microsoft demonstrating hands on what happens when a monopoly is left to its own devices; a lesson the personal computing world apparently failed to appreciate given the monopoly that is Chrome.
Incidentally, the Chrome monopoly is poised to further its grasp with what looks like the opening up of iOS and the subsequent death of Safari. Netscape and Firefox are rolling in their graves.