Right. The article was about consumer products but you've identified the major differentiator between MS and the others. MS never gets developer buy-in and then

Right. The article was about consumer products but you've identified the major differentiator between MS and the others. MS never gets developer buy-in and then hangs you out to dry. You can still build and support OLE controls TWO DECADES later. You can invest development time in MS and they won't deprecate Java (voluntarily) or Wave on you.