Avoiding Microsoft

For some good and some less good reasons, there are people who have set as personal quest to avoid all things Microsoft. Messages sometimes come across as if Microsoft was inherently evil, and as if any morally decent person had to shun all their products.

Each person has the right to his or her opinions, of course, and making a metaphysical generic moral judgement on a company with about twice as many employees as the population of the entire country Monaco, is not worse than a lot of other things man does.

However, I do get miffed when Microsoft hunters go after people using any MS software. Inevitably, there are situations in which Microsoft provides the best solution - or even the only one.

If you want to bring down Microsoft, you should not struggle to avoid those of their products that are better than others'. It is much more efficient to avoid those of their products that are worse than others'. That is, after all, a bigger segment of their sales.