To be fair, the anti-Microsoft sentiment didn't just pop up out of nowhere. I've been burned by Microsoft's bullshit so many times that I will go out of my way to deny them any semblance of power, lest they try to leverage it for some new anti-consumer vendor lock-in scheme.
How's that old saying go? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 47 times, shame on me.
Oh Microsoft has also been involved with tooling, you know how they sold that SOAP crap. They made it complex by purpose, so you had to buy tools to work with SOAP.
Ref Book: The New Kingmakers
"It’s hard to feel too sorry for SOAP’s creators, however — particularly if what one Microsoft developer told Tim O’Reilly is true: “It was actually a Microsoft objective to make [SOAP] sufficiently complex that only the tools would read and write this stuff,” he explained, “and not humans.”"
Ha... there are def many things they've been involved in that were questionable from that perspective, but I'd still put that under the domain of business practices.
I guess my take is overall they earned high marks from the dev community despite whatever misses they may have had over the years.
I'm not a Microsoft hater but I also haven't needed their software for my job in quite some time. I am however a Microsoft Project hater (don't ever try the auto-level resources function). But someone was demonstrating (Terraform I think) using Visual Studio Code and I fell in love with the editor. It's now my primary IDE, it's Microsoft and it's completely OSS.
How's that old saying go? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 47 times, shame on me.