Microsoft's Xbox One console was born in battle. Just as it was released, it became embroiled in a huge social media problem. Despite Microsoft realizing how poorly they had read the market and doing an about-face on some the new console's most controversial features, the public backlash has been harsh. Unless you ask Bing.

Type "the xbox one is…" into search engines like Google and Yahoo, and you'll see autofill bring up some nasty results — "the xbox one is terrible," "the xbox one is a joke," "the xbox one is ugly." Things like that. But if the same phrase is put into Bing (the search engine thats owned by Microsoft...), it comes up with the rosy phrase "the xbox one is amazing."

Coincidence? I think not! But if the swift departure of Microsoft studios creative director Adam Orth following his impolite Twitter rejoinders is any indication, Microsoft has no patience for online snafus at the moment. Strangly enough, if the word "the" was taken out of the equation, Bing's search results fall more in line with those of its rivals, as show by the image below:

Bing

When changed to "Xbox One is," Bing's autosuggest results are similarly pessimistic about the new console.

To its credit, Microsoft is now more responsive to its legions of passionate Xbox fans than it originally appeared. As the next-generation console wars started to heat up last week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, popular consensus from the most eager and vocal gamers seemed to settle on Sony winning the First Round with its upcoming PlayStation 4.

This didn't have as much to do with the expected features of either the PS4 or the rival Xbox One as it did with the way Microsoft reacted to the contraversy that ANYONE should have seen coming. Fans didn't appreciate how Microsoft intended to limit use of the new console. Restrictions on online and used games proved enough of a problem that Microsoft reversed its entire position on digital rights management (DRM) suddenly the Wednesday after E3, vindicating the swarms of angry Xbox fans.

When asked about the difference in autosuggest results, a Microsoft spokesperson told NBC News: "We do not manually alter the results appearing in autosuggest. Autosuggest uses several algorithms to anonymously analyze historical queries from users to generate the suggestions automatically."