Summary: CNN makes Microsoft one of the winners in a "most hateable companies" ladder and even Microsoft employees ridicule the company's products

● 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.

● Microsoftie: KIN failure was an embarrassment across campus

Granted, it’s just one Microsoftie emailing a tech blog with his/her own assessment of the mood on campus when the news broke - but I can’t imagine that anyone on the KIN team was feeling all that upbeat when the news of killing the KIN hit the blogosphere.