> MS has had a tendency to do things differently for the sake of doing things differently It's probably for the sake of "making sure it's hard to port". E.g.,

> MS has had a tendency to do things differently for the sake of doing things differently It's probably for the sake of "making sure it's hard to port". E.g., .net in 2008 called "culture" a thing that has been referred to as a "locale" for at least 30 years at that point, with naming conventions and all. I find it extremely hard to believe that they were unaware of it -- yet, the vast majority of .net programmers I've known had no idea what "locale" was, and believed microsoft invented "culture".