Bill Gates has been a huge asshole right from the start. Microsoft really hasn't gotten more or less evil after gates, it just steadily has gone on on the same fucked up path.

Microsoft is just marketing company that tries to paddle bullshit software that will try to steal from you at every moment. That isn't new, that had been like that from the moment they could. The sabotaging of consumers and competition basically has been a feature of day one. It's in their motto, the embrace, extend, extinguish.