The ship has sailed, Microsoft. You had your chance and you held the Web back for a decade. Where would we be right now if you didn't hinder the progress. Nice try anyway.
And they're taking more radical steps towards ongoing transparency and fairness than most other companies I could name, including things like their compiler & runtime licensing, pledges to never use over API use, directly supporting their cloud service competitors.
I'm not sure what value your grudge gives to you, but let me offer you a new target for hate: The only people given a free license to lock down the ecosystem from hardware all the way out to setting prices and fees in the software market is Apple, I guess. THEY won't betray us!
Microsoft employs smart people. It has become clear that long-term, that approach simply doesn't work. There are legal consequences to being an abusive monopoly, and on top of that we've seen that the software ecosystem routes around the bottleneck pretty rapidly.
if they hadn't undermined themselves by developing XMLHTTPRequest I wonder if we'd still be on Windows using IE
People will be more wary in the future, as well.