Based on another article posted today on hackernews, microsoft is one of the big ones doing the most efforts towards complying to the new european privacy rules (GDPR) (https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/201...) and I also see them doing a lot of efforts towards opensource lately, so even though I'm not a huge microsoft fan nor working for them, I think a lot of prejudices that exist today are due to their history / legacy and therefor I would recommend to be a bit more careful when arguing that they are the devil and all their sub companies and tools have to be avoided at all cost