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- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Blame it all on Microsoft for Vendor Lock-in. In the form of API's it seems, I've seen a quote on wikipedia where they admit that they suck:
"The Windows API is so broad, so deep, and so functional that most ISVs would be crazy not to use it. And it is so deeply embedded in the source code of many Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different operating system instead...
"It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties [...] Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move.
"In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago."
You can see here they admit that without the vendor lock-in they would be lost today. - XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I also marked this as duplicate
- dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1marked as lame.
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