We've banned this account for being a long-time pro-Microsoft astroturfer who has plagued this site for years, including making networks of accounts to reply to each other and create the false impression of conversation. We've banned this person or persons many times before and will do so whenever we have evidence of them plying their trade on HN. There are 76 accounts marked in our system as theirs (all banned, of course), and I'm sure they've created many more.
By the way, their bit above about how the HN community makes a 'huge deal' out of Microsoft criticisms while Google and Apple get off, etc. etc., and accusations of voting bias on HN (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11014741) —all that is highly characteristic of this person or persons. So is their use of HN not only to promote Microsoft but also to bash its competitors, something I predict you'll see if you look through the submission history of this one.
So, a call to all upstanding HNers: if in the future you see accounts that comment like that, it might be a good idea to email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. But please don't accuse people on the site itself—that undermines civility, and shouldn't be done without strong evidence. (And let's not forget that HN has many legitimate users who use and like Microsoft products. I'm pretty sure kogir is no astroturfer.) When we do have strong evidence, we act immediately to protect the integrity of this site.
When we discovered this astroturfing campaign in 2013, and saw for how long they'd been plaguing HN, pg said that it made his blood boil. Well it makes my blood boil now.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011322 and marked it off-topic.