Microsoft

Shame they can't look into the practice of bundling PCs with Windows.

Microsoft's tactics of intimidating OEMs and asking OEMs to report people asking for PCs without Windows installed (so they can report them for piracy) are much worse than those allegedly employed by Intel.

Intel

It's an interesting example of how two companies deal, or don't deal with their public image. Intel gives money to politicians, it gives money to universities, it placates the open source movement; and this has really shielded it from a lot of the political pressures that peck at Microsoft.