Your perspective on this seems skewed. We have never stopped hearing about how &quot;evil&quot; Microsoft was. Microsoft is a company most people love to hate. There are not any movies painting Bill Gates as an inspired, messianic product visionary. Apple used monopolistic practices many times itself, but this is rarely discussed.<p>There would not be much backlash against Steve Jobs if he had not been beatified by a brand-loyalty cult as the Design Messiah Who Changed Everything. That story was written by Apple, and now nobody can get away from it. There are plenty of other execs who made piles of cash selling widgets that were slightly different from other widgets, but we don&#x27;t develop strong opinions about those guys because we never have to hear about them.