I'm a programmer. Going back a few years, I hate Microsoft because:
* 8.3
* 16-bit address space
* Insanely complicated and needlessly POSIX-incompatible
access control lists
* Registry
* Path separator: \ vs /
* Very expensive dev tools
* MSC++ isn't C++
* Handling of Java
* Management via GUI instead of text files
* Absence of usable shell
Yes, this list is way out of date. But these are the issues chased me out of the Microsoft world into Unix, Linux and open source. The few times I've had to deal with Microsoft software more recently (e.g. ACLs), the experience has served only to renew my loathing.
* 8.3
* 16-bit address space
* Insanely complicated and needlessly POSIX-incompatible access control lists
* Registry
* Path separator: \ vs /
* Very expensive dev tools
* MSC++ isn't C++
* Handling of Java
* Management via GUI instead of text files
* Absence of usable shell
Yes, this list is way out of date. But these are the issues chased me out of the Microsoft world into Unix, Linux and open source. The few times I've had to deal with Microsoft software more recently (e.g. ACLs), the experience has served only to renew my loathing.