> 3. Microsoft makes money on product churn; see Windows, MS 
> Office , etc. Developer tools need to be churned regularly to 
> keep revenue flowing. That is the model for that part of the 
> business. 

Damn them for it! There should have been Windows 1, 2, 3, ... 

Had they designed interfaces correctly in the first place, they could
have grown each in an orderly, building block fashion. Instead they
pulled the "out with the old, in with the new" trick one too many times.


See:
How Microsoft Lost the API War - Joel on Software
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html 



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