Some points poignant, some not...
Patrick, since which end of the universe did Microsoft not attempt to control everything? You would have to have lived in a bubble to not know the ends they went to, to crush any & all opponents in every possible sphere imaginable. Microsoft were a scummy monopoliser & proved it many times over. Are you deliberately attempting to muddy Microsoft's perverse past?
"Microsoft also seems a bit more pragmatic and less dogmatic than Apple" on the other hand has some basis in truth, by microscopic shards only. Apple have the crown at the moment but they have it only by a nibble. Microsoft continue their efforts in attempting to shut out "free" software, something that Apple quietly (not so now) in the past hated even more.
Are you paid by these people to use a pragmatic spin to make these scummy companies appear better than they are?
