Unfortunately, that part of the company is still part of your company. And it's a big, visible part. Because of MS's transgressions in the past, you don't get the benefit of the doubt from younger devs. Because you're still behaving like jerks with patents, younger devs know that the company hasn't changed.

Microsoft is still extracting software patent royalties from android OEMs this very minute - that's not anyone's pappy, and it's not a vendor overreaching. It's a calculated, evil decision by the highest levels of management.