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If Microsoft didn't have a decades-long record of pulling shit like this, they might get the benefit of the doubt.
I hate this phrase.
A lot of the time, people (and especially monopolistic, tax-dodging, $3.2 trillion multinationals with a long history of anti-competitive behaviour) really are just cunts.
Time and time again, we see big companies doing anything they can to destroy competition, mislead customers, etc.
Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
In business and politics "malice" and "stupidity/incompetence" are one and the same.