Baseball may be America’s favorite pastime, but here in the Linux blogosphere, grumbling about Microsoft is surely the next best thing. “Microsoft is still paying for the bad old days of arrogance and dubious business practices,” noted ZDNet UK’s Mary Branscombe in a recent blog post provocatively entitled, “Why do we (love to) hate Microsoft?” After mulling over the current state of affairs in Redmond Branscombe concludes by asking the question, “What would Microsoft need to do and say to you for you to be happy to call yourself a fan?”