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That's cool. I hated Micro$oft for a while, for being a bunch of evil money grubbing assholes who made it harder to run the operating system I wanted, applied proprietary extensions to open standards in order to force vendor lock-in [nearly destroying the open web], and who leveraged PC manufacturer deals to tax us for software we didn't want. They literally called Open Source a cancer and lied about what the GPL specified to discourage use of the software. M$ was a monopoly, and all about the cash. It was never supposed to be funny.

Also, irony means suggesting the opposite. I don't know why anyone would use M$ ironically.

> How can you take that one comment seriously with that "M$" part in it.

Judge the comment on the merits of the data provided and opinion based on that and don't get hung up on a name?

"M$" may also be useful as an indicator of bias but again, it is not the whole comment.

It started much longer than 10 years ago. On slashdot, it was pretty much the only way I've ever seen Microsoft referred to.