Those Microsoft commercials are infuriating! They depict children in some typically middle-class context, often minority students, and hand-draw a line drawing showing them as astronauts, directors, musicians, artists. The commercial ends with a beaming statement about how pleased they are to help students acheive their dreams.
Please, Microsoft does about as much to help children acheive their dreams as Bic, a manufacturer of pens. All they are doing is hugging children, "We LOVE children." Microsoft is run by a pack of vindictive monopolists. They're exploiting the fuzzy image of children to flower their image (next: puppies?).
Their products provide the worst software experience in the industry. Back in 1985, it was great to know that a document you read was in a format you could send to a friend, and they could read also. But open standards have rendered that concept's only advantage to be maintaining a monopoly -- which gives them the power to manipulate markets. Which they do.
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