If you work for a few large companies you start to notice the pattern of Win32 like code. It should be dead, but it cannot be dead and it will not be dead until

If you work for a few large companies you start to notice the pattern of Win32 like code. It should be dead, but it cannot be dead and it will not be dead until the company is dead. Network effects and political power of entrenched players means that they can freeze out any new replacements because the new replacements have to interface with the older entrenched solution.