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8/12 comments on this HN thread so-far are nothing more than "Microsoft sucks lols" dressed up in a pseudo-relevant form. Quality stuff right here. I'll try to keep that in mind next time I encounter knee-jerk reactions here to Microsoft products or reading sentences that start with "MS is too old" and end with "Win8 is too adventurous". (See: People not understanding UEFI Secure Boot, not understanding desktop mode, etc).

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Is it just me, or has anyone else been much happier with modern Microsoft than Microsft of the Late 90/00's? Windows 8 phone is actually a great pleasure to use, even if the app ecosystem isn't where it needs to be.

HN certainly doesn't lean pro-MS but I don't get your point. It seems to be "I'll keep in mind these terrible comments when I see terrible comments in the future."

This isn't a small community and there are plenty of relatively unbiased people that are capable of making arguments to be judged on their own merit.

I more or less meant, I'll stop trying to take comments here seriously or assume they're informed opinions. It's an assumption that I generally (used to?) grant HN comments moreso than anywhere else on the Internet. Normally when I see comments hating on an Microsoft product, I assume they have some basis in personal usage reality and not because it's become a meme, even here, to blindly hate on Microsoft and make assumptions about their products that literally stem from 5-10 years ago.

Admittedly I am responsible for one of the more ridiculous and pointless comments on this thread (although in my defense it wasn't an attempt at being pseudo-relevant in the slightest, was just me being silly about the use of the word 'mystery', which always tends to bring out scooby-doo references in my head). However, what kind of response can you have to an announcement that any big company is releasing something, but they won't say what. I'll reserve relevance for when there is something to be relevant about, otherwise it is just the microsoft equivalent of the more vacuous side of mac rumours, and in the absence of any information I do find sillyness is preferable to sincere waffle about a marketing exercise.

Fair enough but I don't see these "Microsoft sucks lols" comments you speak of.

  I hope they are delaying Win 8 for at least a year.

Is that it?

  Based on early Windows 8 feedback, Microsoft announce
  the upcoming release of Windows 9! /s

Maybe this? Even if you ignore the "/s", I don't take this as "MS sux". He's simply referencing some of the critical reaction that comes with any major change to a product with a bit of humor on a post that isn't exactly conducive for a good discussion.

This post is about a "mystery". If anything, I'd take the tone of the comments to be relative indifference about discussing this "mystery".

What's the best way to respond to religious knee-jerk comments?

Downvote.

If they would stop announcing things that suck, we would have more faith that the next thing they announce will not suck.

It is just straightforward extrapolation.

I don't use any Microsoft products myself, but Windows Phone 8 seems great, and Kinect is one of the best toys a hacker could dream of. I for one am very excited to hear about big announcements from them.

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