The Tech Companies I Love and Hate: Microsoft

Microsoft was my first love. This was during Apple's ever increasing decline into it's darkest years and pre-Google. If you had a computer, it ran Windows. My family's computer ran Windows 95. I was hooked. I wasn't afraid to push buttons and open folders. I explored it until I was sure I exhausted it. Of course, I was only 11 or so, so I didn't know the half of it. I personally upgraded us to Windows 98 with no tutorials. It was simple. It was intuitive. At least, that's how I perceived it.

People would actually come to me for simple PC problems. Everything in Windows universe just made sense to me. But as the software giant became more and more bloated, so did their flagship platform. This is how my love for them started to wane.