"Fuck! It took you a year to figure that out!"

--Sociopath Bill Gates

Summary: Racism, intolerance, sexism and bullying are rampant at Microsoft; but Microsoft would rather deflect/divert/sidetrack to Google and so-called 'GAFA'

One reader wrote to us about the "Conspiracy Theory" that "Microsoft is just as guilty as Google with regard to employee intimidation/retaliation and toxic cultures" and is therefore behind the latest media wave that defects all attention to Google. Months ago Google was blasted for pursuing business in China -- the same thing Microsoft had done for like... forever?

"I wonder if they’re sponsoring the presses vendetta against Google at the moment," this reader added, "because their names aren’t being mentioned in any of these articles."

"They did this before," I told this reader. "Their PR lobby was called "Scroogled"."

Did they ever completely stop all of these smear campaigns? Seems unlikely.

Since the media likes to talk about toxic culture at Google let's revisit some old examples from Microsoft.

• Microsoft Wants Only White People in Poland
• Microsoft is Sexist
• Microsoft Refuses to Comment About (Deny) the Sex Parties, Drug Use
• Microsoft Corporation: Sex, Drugs, and Corruption
• Microsoft's Bad Mouth Causes Linux Havoc
• Sex Scandals at Microsoft UK and Microsoft Internationally
• Rape Jokes Are Not Going to Save Microsoft
• Microsoft Uses “Half-naked” Women ('Meter Maids') to Promote Its Products
• Don't Look at Linux For Sexism, Look at Microsoft (Although Microsoft Hides the Newest Lawsuits)
• The 'Sarah Sharps' of Microsoft: Not the Kind of Scandal the Media Cares Enough to Write About
• Microsoft's Takeover of GitHub Already an Attack on the Four Freedoms in Service of Empire
• Reactions to Microsoft Turning GitHub Into a Racist Government's Censorship Platform (Censorship of FOSS)
• Microsoft Making Critics Unemployed (or Trying to)
• Microsoft Sneaks Out of Treason and Homophobia Charges
• No Sex and No 'Gay' on Microsoft Xbox 360
• Another New Example of Microsoft Homophobia

There are lots more. There are dozens of examples in Techrights, but the above ought to suffice for now. Microsoft lacks moral high ground in just about every area. ⬆