[WorldMaker]

They've apologized in many ways over the years, and especially in many of their PRs about their open source efforts, but also in casual moments and jokes in their conferences. Ballmer himself admitted he was too harsh on open source in a magazine article somewhat recently.

I doubt they simply hope every one forgets, they probably hope every one forgives eventually.

[cies]

Thanks. I did not know they apologized for stiffling the FLOSS effort.

I've never seen such PR, but I will trust you on it.