Watch the attitude that's projected in the following promotional video. It's probably a real commercial.
With a mentality like this, no wonder Microsoft patents something like sudo. Is that what Linux supposedly infringes on? Has Microsoft done its homework and reached the shelf for some prior art?
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it