Evolution and revolution are similar in result, differing only in rate of change. We can see around us in New Zealand some results of violent revolutionary changes made in some companies that didn't work. Draw conclusions with care, though. Our technology will mature and keep changing at an ever-increasing rate, and evolutionary changes will begin to resemble revolutionary ones soon. Microsoft is not evil.
Some people see goblins under the bed and in every cupboard.
Microsoft is only a business, albeit a big one. They do some things very well, other things badly. Microsoft is not ignorable. Microsoft is hardly laughable, either. We have to run to escape, and laterally, not along the steamroller's chosen path.