I hate MS as a company, but their products i love. except Vista and ME. they simply suck donkey...)

EDIT: I've just had a think about what i just said and maybe I'm a little off...

i don't love Microsoft's products as such. Their OS's on the whole are decent. XP is brill, but like i said above Vista and ME truly suck donkey. Hardware-wise, I have a microsoft intellimouse Pro that was bought in 1996 that i still use to this day. (its my school mouse. at school you can never tell whether the computer you're about to sit down at has a working mouse, and the school thought they were smart when they padlocked the mouse cables onto the computer chassis so you couldn't swap them around, and then lost the keys...) on the other hand i also have an MS joystick that i bought a while ago that died soon after buying it and wasn't compatible with MS Flight Simulator 2002 (!?).

Office is undoubtedly the most popular office suite around and for good reason. I still use 2000 and apart from compatibility issues with newer versions of office (easily solvable) and Publisher not being all that stable i find it perfectly servicable.

Microsoft as a company i hate. their ideas about what people want are way off (Vista) and their ethics are basically non-existant. but, they can write some damn good software...