People in the niche computing platform I'm apart of used to call it that all the time. All MS cares about is making a profit.
I hate the way American businesses are run, if any one gets in their way they buy them, if someone has unique product they copy it, or again buy them out.
To be fair, this is all any corporation "cares" about, if even that much can be said. First of all, a corporation isn't a person or even a group of persons, it's a thing. Technicality aside, the people at top care about money because it's
their job to care about money. News flash: even Canonical and Red Hat care about money. Just because their way of getting it isn't as annoying and possibly underhanded doesn't mean they don't care about money. If they didn't care about money, they wouldn't be a corporation, American or otherwise (unless your fancy European/Asian/whatever market somehow transcended currency while I wasn't watching).
As for business methods, yes, Microsoft can be a bit pushy; it's how they make their billions. They're pushy because it has worked in the past and because it still works now. Sure they make some dumb decisions from time to time, but that again is true with any large company (especially tech companies, which tend to have non-technical people in managerial positions).
While I wish Microsoft would start doing things differently for ours sakes, I understand why they don't. They've made billions of dollars, and for good reason; they turned computers from a purely business machine into something that much of the world uses in their personal lives. Some might argue that they didn't really invent anything that wasn't already there; I concede that point, because it's irrelevant. They were the ones that brought the technology to market and made it sell (and shine); without them, computers wouldn't be a personal tool even now, unless Apple succeeded in their stead. And if you think Microsoft is an evil corporation, you don't want to know what sort of things Apple would be doing in Microsoft's position (considering their DRM experiments and hardware lockdown, it's a safe assumption to say that they'd be far worse in such a position).
