I don't think I'll speculate about my employer's religious affiliations :-)
The haters just need someone to hate. MSFT is an easy target.
Consider the source as well. Many of our competitors are threatened, not necessarily by MSFT, but by the dissolution of their proprietary lockin of customers to low volume / high margin hardware and software.
As to software quality, NT is a robust enough product for companies such as Boeing, Chicago Stock Exchange, Compaq, Dow Chemical, Fidelity, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Texaco, and Saturn to rely on Windows NT Server-based systems to deliver computational, transaction, and I/O capacity requirements for their most demanding environments.
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