Microsoft has done a lot more good for the casual consumer than its "obvious" alternatives.

Microsoft is the only market entity that actually takes risks on design for both hardware and software intended for a normal user.

Microsoft gets a lot of hate, and some of it is deserved, but a lot of it comes from years of habituating that hate.

How many FOSS communities have been characterized as disinterested, distant, and unwilling to help despite being filled with good, genuinely caring people?

Apple users being strawmanned as hipsters with more money than brains.