They deserve, but they don't want too...

Microsoft as a whole does not want to do Open Source. Some employees of microsoft are fighting hard to open up the company. I think that's brave. I hope it works. But microsoft's overall goal is still platform lockin.Microsoft makes money with windows and office. So what you see today is that applications are build on top of these components. It's not only the OS any more.You start with windows then you want to write -> office then you want to publish online -> sharepoint which means buying a server -> IIS and *bam!* before you know it, you are completely lockedin.Open Source (and standards) is nothing but window dressing for Microsoft (no phun intended ;) ). It's a sales pitch. ".NET is cross platform" no it's not! It only works fully on windows, the rest of the platforms are in an endless state of development. The same when they bought a standard. The reason for this is that they can say look an open standard! While in practise it is not (see example of the mess it creates).For a while I thought exactly what you thought too. Microsoft is changing... maybe they are learning, untill you look closer, then you realise that they are actually not.