Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services.

Why They Useless Now
''' NOTE : These reasons are only software-related. Click on this link to find out about their gaming division.'''

Nowadays

 * 1) Instead of extending Windows 7 support for free (as they did to Windows XP when Windows Vista had its development reset), they force users after January 2020 to pay a monthly fee to extend support until 2023, with the price increasing each year after 2020 until 2023. Alongside that, you will only gain support if you're running Professional or Enterprise SKUs of Windows 7.
 * 2) * Microsoft has also tried to force Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10.
 * 3) They try very hard to force their own products and leave out third party. Some beta builds of Windows 10 October 2018 update has the ability to intercept the installation of third-party browsers in favor of Edge. Luckily, this check was removed shortly after.
 * 4) Very little testing goes into Windows 10 updates, even after Windows Insiders filed bug reports for numerous major issues. Microsoft had to delay the April 2018 update because of major stability problems and worse is that October 2018 actually deleted user files upon update. It took Microsoft three days to pull the original October 2018 update, but users who lost their data from the update could not retrieve their files without third-party software.
 * 5) Just like eBay, they suspend accounts for little or no reason. And everytime it's suspended, you have to verify your phone number.

Back Then

 * 1) Tends to rush their computer operating systems instead of finishing them: They rushed the Windows ME development so much that the operating system crashed and suffered from several BSOD errors, glitches, and bugs, making the home users end up staying at Windows 98 or buying the superior Windows 2000, which was intended for business use. In addition, they rushed Windows Vista as well, as the operating system had lots of bugs, glitches, poor optimization for old hardware etc., because of this, they released Windows 7 only two years after Vista's launch.
 * 2) *The Vista Capable branding on Windows XP computers that couldn't run Vista without upgrades, which ruined Windows Vista's reputation. Microsoft even got sued for it!
 * 3) They have also killed off Hardware Accelerated Audio (Creative's EAX technology, which it doesn't work on Vista and later operating systems anymore without using Creative's Alchemy tool).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Many people say that this company is the best when it comes to their hardware and software, which have revolutionized the personal computer market countless times.
 * 2) Most importantly, they gave us the Windows series, operating systems with graphical user interfaces, the most popular being Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10. Most versions of Windows are highly regarded as the greatest operating systems of all time.
 * 3) Windows 10 was a huge improvement over Windows 8 that it brought back desktop mode from Windows 7 and you can switch back to Windows 8's Metro Interface by choice. It was also the most popular OS among Steam users until the popularity of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and later Among Us in China where Windows 10 was being overtaken by Windows 7 due to the OS being popular in China.
 * 4) They oppossed the infamous SOPA, a censorship tool that tried to take away online freedom on USA in 2012.