Eye on Microsoft: Company Makes Top 10 of “Most Hateable Companies”
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-07-09 07:15:32 UTC
- Modified: 2010-07-09 07:15:32 UTC
Summary: CNN makes Microsoft one of the winners in a "most hateable companies" ladder and even Microsoft employees ridicule the company's products
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Most hateable companies (not named BP)
#10. Microsoft
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The company's stock has gone absolutely nowhere in the past five years and Apple now is worth more than Microsoft.
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