This reminds me of a Joel Spolsky post from years ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html E

This reminds me of a Joel Spolsky post from years ago: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html Essentially, Microsoft shoots itself in the foot by trying to stay extremely backwards compatible, even to the detriment of making their products better.