Good article but I would like to point out that I too looked into the Windows Text Services Framework years ago and it was literally the worst designed and impl

Good article but I would like to point out that I too looked into the Windows Text Services Framework years ago and it was literally the worst designed and implemented API I had ever worked with in my career. I got ahold of some engineers within Microsoft to ask wtf? and their response was that was written by some disconnected Asian office who understood Asian requirements well but were terrible architects.