I completely agree. Most of the HN readers are too young to remember MS's bad practices.
Microsoft is a company like any other, and like any other company we should keep an eye on what they're doing.
But too often the people who "remember Microsoft's bad practices" are completely unwilling to reevaluate the company based on what they're actually doing _now_, instead preferring to cling to illogical biases based on an old grudge.
How many PRISM-like APIs are there?