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That's because Microsoft kind of screwed over its TechNet subscribers. In a way, they poisoned their TechNet community.

There is a petition on change.org with almost 10,000 signatures.

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/continue-technet-or-cr...

They have also tightened the screws and raised prices on the only alternative, MSDN subscriptions. Plus cranked the prices on SQL Server, fucked the GUI up in Windows, screwed the pooch on RT and back-peddled on the new Xbox, etc...

Microsoft has made many recent decisions that have irritated or pissed off people including their customers and developers.

In this case I understand that they have valid grievances with Google, but there's this German word, schadenfreude, that comes to mind.

*schadenfreude requires a HN Enterprise reply agreement before being used in a post. :)

I thought Reddit was fairly pro-Microsoft? I mean, if we're talking Reddit as a whole and not /r/programming. Reddit has a lot of general users who use Windows, especially any gamers, so they take kindly more to Microsoft. I remember articles on Reddit that mocked Bing and most of Reddit seemed to support Microsoft.