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Y’all are not entitled to the benefit of the doubt any more than obviously-evil companies like Facebook are.

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For those of us that remember the “old” Microsoft, they are still obviously evil. Nothing they have done will change that view. Incidents like this prove that this zebra cannot change its stripes.

Never. Trust. Microsoft.

I mean yeah. But for a few years there, they were at least not as obviously horrible as they used to be, or as some other companies were.

> Never. Trust. Microsoft.

Good advice.

> Incidents like this prove that this zebra cannot change its stripes.

Nope! This was a simple mistake that would have gained them nothing.

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