I struggle with changing my perception of Microsoft. I still characterize them by their Halloween documents and efforts to destroy Netscape.<p>I would recommend the Surface to friends or family, which is a recent change. But <i>I</i> would never use Microsoft products. And not just because I&#x27;d be giving up years of Linux folk-knowledge. Childishly, when I watch a youtube video of someone far more skilled than me programming in Windows, I recoil a little.<p>I strive to avoid bias; I don&#x27;t want the change in perception to happen merely after people like me die. My bias is fallacious, but it holds like any other deeply-felt bias.<p>Hell, I only recently stopped calling them <i>M$</i>.