While it’s no surprise to see unprovoked hatred spewed at Microsoft, it does get quite old. The most recent batch of anti-MS commentary seems to be focused around the new Bing Visual Search and it’s use of SilverLight. Frankly, I was quite shocked. A Microsoft site is using Microsoft technology!?!?! WTF?!?

I’m sure that Adobe wouldn’t be so crass! They would never require users to install a proprietary plug-in just to use some of their tools… I’m also sure that Google would never be so bold as to partner with these evil plug-in vendors, especially in a manner that directly targets competitors’ browsers.

The s*@% will really hit the fan when some major open source project starts recommending that people install these horrible 3rd party, proprietary plug-ins that encourage people to bypass web standards!

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In all honesty people, this is the kind of stuff that just shows how close-minded developers can be. It resembles the crazies at recent healthcare debates yelling nonsense claims from the back of a high school gymnasium. We get it; you think that everything Microsoft does is an attempt to take over your life, but even Linus Torvald agrees that “Microsoft hatred is a disease”.