Everyone is always saying Microsoft is evil, right?

I think I can prove that they are conclusively, depending on your political opinions.

To start, remember how I pointed out that Even every version of XP Home is fully internationalized....?

Well, to that bit of knowledge add the [reported in Language Log] issue that multilingualism is evil (according to some).

Thus as Microsoft strives with each version to be more fully supportive of all languages, it becomes more and more evil.

In fact, in my position as the software developer who made the initial checkin of the new setup manifests that install all language support by default in Vista, one might even call me as sort of בעל זבוב (Beelzebub) of this enduring campaign of evil.

I wonder if I can trade in the blue T-shirt with bull's horns they gave me for doing all setup those manifests in Longhorn M6 for one that says "I helped ensure Microsoft would be considered enduringly evil, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!"

Though I would settle for a "Bad to the ⻣" T-shirt. Or at least recognition of being a Vista anti-hero? :-)

 

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