Here's what you've had to say:

"How about Microsoft employs thousands of people in tax paying jobs and its founder donates BILLIONS to worthy causes. Microsoft is evil??? How idiotic!!!" K.S., Danielson

"They may be evil, but so am I!! :) I think they have really good products so I use them." J.Z., East Windsor

"Since when is it a crime to be first and the best?" Bill Raber, East Windsor

"Okay -- nobody can deny that Microsoft has, indeed, been prosecuted for anti-trust. But if you look deeply enough into the past of any company whatsoever, you'll find that they, too, have their "dark sides." We only criticize Microsoft and its executive staff because they are more prominent and wealthy than any of us will ever be. Additionally, they have become too involved in the computer industry to just disappear, no matter how much some consumers may prefer otherwise. Look in virtually any PC, Mac, even UNIX/NT-based server filesystem, and you will find that something belongs to Microsoft. And if the company was ever forced to shut down, where would any one be? Microsoft is valuable and important in our world despite how many may dislike the company." Brad Galiette, Essex

"HEY!!! I like Microsoft! Just because no other companies can make a decent product doesn't mean Microsoft is evil." Alec R., Danbury

"Bill Gates is a "Wizard!" Microsoft has put people, the internet and programs together! Bill just happened to be smarter than the all of the other computer companies. Every business wants to succeed, that is their goal! Bill & Microsoft just happened to be smarter & faster! Other companies just wished it was them! A little bit of the jealousy perhaps? If they knew how, don't you think they would have done the same? I'm with Microsoft! Go get 'em Bill!" C.C., East Lyme

"First of all, shame on myself for not getting Linux ... Also related to your recent survey, Bill Gates is also an alien (or possibly Satan.) He invented MS-DOS (Device Of Satan) in an attempt to control the human race. I may be crazy ... or not." Seadog, Southington

"An interesting thing about morals -- once upon a time if you spent all your time doing good things and you did ONE bad thing, you were condemned. Nowadays, if you do ONE good thing and a thousand bad things you are a saint. Bill Gates is a modern day Thomas Edison -- yes, he is brilliant, yes, he has advanced his industry. But, like Edison he is a control freak who wants the world to lock step to his music and his music only. If it wern't for the antitrust laws of our country, we would all still be listening to wax recordings of barber shop quartets, driving Ford Model-T's, and paying $10 a gallon for gas. Bill Gates did move the industry foward, but now he is holding it back and we the mindless consumers are helping him." J.B., Naugatuck

"Microsoft is heroic and valuable. Get out of their way and let them do their fantastic work." Harding, Cornwall

"Re: Finish the "Microsoft is evil" sentence. One option wasn't provided; the statement by itself is on the money, let the Fates decide." Dave Willis, Hamden

"This is one of the STUPIDEST survey questions SNET NET has asked. It is a statement with no merit." C.C., Norwalk

"I look at it this way: Bill Gates and his crew developed a program to make it easy for just about anyone to be able to use a computer. The public bought it and loved it. Now, because he is the richest man alive and getting richer by the moment, people want to tear him apart. If you don't want him to get any richer then go somewhere else or come up with something better. I can guarantee you he didn't get where he is by sitting around and whining that someone else was doing something better than he was. If it wasn't for WINDOWS most of you crybabies wouldn't even be using a computer, because you couldn't be bothered with all of the command lines used in DOS. A lot of you can't even be bothered to learn how to do the simplest things in WINDOWS. So quit wasting good tax payers money on this man and go do something productive." J.H.L., Wallingford

"Microsoft is a lot like the Beatles when they were making music. The Beatles, like Microsoft, seemed to dominate their respective industry. But they were, after all, the best we had." M.F.D., East Hartford

"This is what American business is all about ... Microsoft plays the game well and without them, we would not be as advanced in technology as we are. All major corporations use Microsoft products. Successful enterprise is always criticized by those not smart enough to keep up with the competition." N.J.S., Bristol

"Microsoft is the mini-evil of evil. Their products are O.K. but their operating system -- Windows -- isn't. Microsoft also is the company which copies and adapts to things. Like Windows. Like Windows CE. And even Internet Explorer. I have heard of whole companies switching from the Macintosh operating system to Windows, as well as most other Microsoft products, and yet, the people who use Windows can't print, or have problems installing a program, while the Macintosh users are beyond that. Microsoft is more like something which everyone buys, even though they haven't seen everything else there is to see. Like the Mac and UNIX. I'd like to see the government come in and see that justice is done." S. Homick, Coventry

"Where would we be in this industry without Microsoft? This happens everytime a company get very large. I'm not sure if it's envy or greed, but the prevailing thought is to break up such a large company. Why not thank them? If government intervention needs to be considered, why not ask Microsoft to consider investing funds in similar growth high-tech industries. Allow them to invest, make a small profit, and allow ... equity interests. Breaking up MA BELL proved to be profitable to investors, but did phone service get better in this country? NO! Go from town to town, state to state, or hotel to hotel -- varied quality service, nonstandard services, lack of responsibility, higher costs! Telephone service got worse across the nation. What would happen if there were no Microsoft?" Bill Curlin, Middlefield

"Your bias against Microsoft is ridiculously obvious. Both the opening premise, and then six of the seven responses available agree with that premise. Only NOT, which is both last on your list and isn't even English, gives your respondents a chance to make the only true and correct answer, and still it leads all other answers. So no matter how badly you have attempted to stack the deck against Microsoft, you haven't succeeded. I think you should do it again and just leave NOT off the list. then you'd get the result you want. But of course, you still wouldn't have created the millions of new jobs and new wealth that Microsoft has created over the last twenty years that helped keep the American economy strong over the last decade while the rest of the world suffered through a recession. My guess is you haven't done much at all." Peter Lange, Thompson

"All Mr Gates & associates are doing is living the *ABSOLUTE* "American Dream." Instead of prosecuting them, they should be given the keys to every city, town and local municipality in the world with the blessings of everyone on the planet!" R.J.R., Killingly

"LEAVE THEM ALONE! THEY ARE A GREAT COMPANY!" G.S., Saybrook

"Rich is what one ought to be after pushing computer technology out to ordinary folks -- folks primed by a sound education philosophy to be able to manage such a jump into the future. (It goes without saying that this "Bill" just happened to be the individual who had the right charisma and luck to put it all together at this date and time in human history.) Applying anthropomorphics (meaning morality weighings) to a loose group of workers in a business or corporation (vis-a-vis Microsoft) may not be sensible or fruitful. If they break the laws of the country, advance against them in the courts to keep the playing field fair and square for all others. If they don't, waste not precious lifetime nanoseconds railing against them. Let the judicial process work it's course -- as it is supposed to -- as it was intended. Don't let the size of the fortune being made by the implementers cloud our sense of fairness. Don't assume that they're smarter than we are ... Things are going quite well -- even though things like X-Windows and Java are not on top right now, something else will come along. And we'll pick it up (fickle, are't we?) and drop Windows like a stone perhaps. That's just how things go -- isn't it?" D.C.A., Wolcott

"The sorry thing about this never-ending discussion is the fact that most (if not all) bashers of one OS have never even used another OS. I use both MAC and PCs and have used a variety of OS's, so at least I can make intelligent comments on both. I've used PCs for over 15 years and still do at work. Two years ago I bought a Mac for home and let me simple say, my home computing is much more enjoyable. Everything works, everything runs, and no, it's not just for graphics and music. ... Although it is much better at it. I do everything with it and any software worth its price is available on both platforms. Sorry, the lack of software excuse is way outdated, as is all the old anti-Mac claims. As for everything working and running on the PCs, well, I'm the system admin of an NT network and I definitely can't say the same. Whether it's 95/98/NT/or whatever, it's mostly problems and way to many to get into here. ... The point is, I like my Mac much better and if someone likes their Wintel better, knock yourself out, it's your choice. However, I don't think that Gates is a good business man and Micro$oft is way out of line with their bully tactics, purchased bad press, and anti-trust (or should it be anti-christ) antics. Okay, fine, I'll admit that M$ Office is a decent package, but Windoze is definately NOT the saving grace of the computing society." CMSK, Thomaston