{"id":578,"date":"2007-04-02T00:19:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T07:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/04\/02\/newsletter-383-preview-despite-everything-i-still-like-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:22:14","slug":"newsletter-383-preview-despite-everything-i-still-like-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/04\/newsletter-383-preview-despite-everything-i-still-like-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #383 Preview: Despite Everything I Still Like Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, with my various \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cFear-Factor\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d commentaries, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve given Microsoft some well-deserved lumps, and you readers have joined in the fun in our Comments section. Surprisingly, no Microsoft supporters have chimed in to disagree, and I know for certain that you readers are not strictly Mac users.<\/p>\n<p>So I figured it was time to put my cards on the table. You see, as much as I might object to all those outrageous statements from Bill Gates and his old buddy Steve Ballmer, Microsoft has lots and lots of brilliant people working for them. They can, in fact, provide great products, or at least pretty good ones, if they are just allowed to create. And that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not always so easy in Microsoft\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s elaborate corporate hierarchy<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, Microsoft\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s keyboards. 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