Programmer: Here is a shitload of work to merely tread in place while MS fucks me over for their own benefit.

Users: Oooooo, shiny.

Or sigh.

1st of all, you tried to argue with his perspective. And you did it in a personal fashion, with little or NO personal perspective that justified your arguments.

Then when it became obvious (at least to me, and I can only assume to you since you moved on) that your perspective was strictly annoyed/selfish (gimme what I want and shut the fuck up), you moved on to insulting the profession in general.

Dude, you are like my daughter bitching about the world around her that she doesn't have the slightest understanding, and no desire whatsoever to take the time and effort to understand it, nor any care to since if she let her ignorant guard down she might have to accept something less than flying ponies. For free. Or if not for free, for far less than the cost of production.

The world doesn't slave for you, you simply lucked out occasionally when your desires meshed with somebody else's production goals in an affordable fashion. And when you bitch about someone pointing out the issues involved, you simply want to shut them down.

Annoying. Needed a response.

The reason the guy is bitching publicly (maybe) is he is trying to prompt a direction change to MS. The only way an outsider can do that is to point out if pushed hard enough, he'll spend his time and money persuing alternatives. If enough people like him to that, then it might be pushed in his desired direction.