Your comment doesn't add to the conversation. If your point is to call out just how disgraced MS has become (and how disgusted you are with it), you could give examples that show this kind of behavior is new and wouldn't have happened "when MS was mighty", or you could give further examples to show just how far they've fallen and use this story as further evidence of your point. All you've done is pipe in a trope without justification.
Also it's generally bad etiquette to meta-comment about being down-voted: it only exacerbates the "not contributing to the real conversation at hand" thing.
It does, actually. Thanks for being so polite with the response and being informative. I've seen comments almost exactly like mine on here get voted up quite a bit so I didn't think anything of it. I do see your point, though. I'll try to avoid it in the future. Thanks again!
Also it's generally bad etiquette to meta-comment about being down-voted: it only exacerbates the "not contributing to the real conversation at hand" thing.
Hope this helps.