It's been a very long time indeed since I developed Windows-targeted software, but this rings true from what I remember. It always seemed to me that Microsoft w

It's been a very long time indeed since I developed Windows-targeted software, but this rings true from what I remember. It always seemed to me that Microsoft wanted to give you just enough tools to imagine doing what you wanted to do, but not quite enough support to get it done - thereby encouraging the growth of a consultancy industry to get their feet into more corporate doors. The tool dependency is a vendor lock-in strategy. "Just use the Microsoft tool" is always the answer. Weird.