There are lots of bubbles or spheres of technology, some companies like Microsoft/Apple, others more open. The particular thing about the Microsoft bubble/sphe

There are lots of bubbles or spheres of technology, some companies like Microsoft/Apple, others more open. The particular thing about the Microsoft bubble/sphere is that it acts like a very overly attached parent that does everything for the kid (developer) and really can make them successful within their realm. But the nix/open other bubbles are where programmers have to know more, be more manual and be more independent. It is more of a street knowledge type game where the Microsoft bubble is the scheduled childhood. On the extreme, developers in Microsoft bubbles (or other bubbles for that matter Rails, Node.js) are like cults/religions. There are good and bad sides to this type of approach to developers on a platform. They'll constantly look to Microsoft for solutions rather than independent open source ones (changing a bit but only recently). It is easy to see why companies like using this tech. Now with overlay attached or strict parents, sometimes the kids when they see the real world, they run for the hills.