The 'evil empire' was always Apple. It just lost because it tried to control too much on hardware/software side. Apple fanbois have a deep grudge against Microsoft: About two decades of deserved lost presence for Apple. Apple of today is the same control-freak Apple it was decades ago: You cannot install Apple OS on non-Apple machines. You cannot run non-Apple OS on Apple machines. You cannot legally run Apple OS in virtual environments....
The list is rather long. Mostly because of the lies from Apple and their fanbois we have the negative opinion of Microsoft. If Microsoft's OS was really SO BAD then, for decades, 90+% of world-wide machine would not have been running Windows platform. Critical machines in airports, hospitals, govt. departments, schools, corporations still run Windows. Yes, Windows has more viruses but that is precisely because the hackers would want to target the largest possible machine-pool. Yes, Windows machine seem to have more reports of crashes but that is precisely because the freedom Microsoft gave to 3rd party hardware and software vendors to do whatever they wanted with Windows. But this kind of freedom given by Microsoft has made computers and innovation really cheap and prevalent. Think what would have happened if Apple had won decades ago? Think hard.
The Big Brother was always Apple. And today they are poised to be not the proverbial 800-pound gorilla but the 8000-pound gorilla by being the largest corporation of any kind in the world.
Apple is a dangerous company for technology for being so manipulative of media and for being control-freak. Their fanbois are the fanatic version equivalent to some religious cult.
I'd say let Adobe and Microsoft collaborate to stop the march of techno-fascism led by Apple!