For me, it's kind of like sports. Why do you hate certain teams?
I'm a 90's linux user so my hate for MS is self explanatory and these days mostly irrational. Recently I found myself working with a group of Microsoft employees and it's tough to "hate" them, their company or the really nice products they flaunt around (Surface, Windows Phones, etc).
There are a lot things that continue to feed my dislike for the company though. It's silly things, like the way they continue to ignore the existence of industry standard protocols (ssh! there is BSD code! just copy it!!).
In day to day dealings with the company I sometimes still get a sense of arrogance and not-invented-here type scenarios that prevent a better solution from being perused.
You don't have to love MS or upvote their articles, just not use the flag button to kill articles because you don't like them.
I definitely empathize with much of what you are saying. But many of us are just average joes working for a big company with diverse interests. You might still want to interact with us because we know things and have interesting stories to tell. Even if you hate a certain team, would you really give their players a cold shoulder?
I work for a telco so I understand what it's like to work for a big unloved corporation. FWIW, the MSFT employees I work with are a great group of very talented and helpful people.
I think I'd consider myself to be 90's Linux user (I have been using it since late 95 or so) and I think what I have to Microsoft is not really "hate" but strong distrust, that I actually, personally, as a Linux user, was receiving many of those harm. Just the word "Winmodem" gives me a chill.
Although today, it looks like it's not as bad as it used to be, but I would never forget about that. Around that time, I was high school age, so I guess I was more susceptible, too :-)
I'm a 90's linux user so my hate for MS is self explanatory and these days mostly irrational. Recently I found myself working with a group of Microsoft employees and it's tough to "hate" them, their company or the really nice products they flaunt around (Surface, Windows Phones, etc).
There are a lot things that continue to feed my dislike for the company though. It's silly things, like the way they continue to ignore the existence of industry standard protocols (ssh! there is BSD code! just copy it!!).
In day to day dealings with the company I sometimes still get a sense of arrogance and not-invented-here type scenarios that prevent a better solution from being perused.