Microsoft is a bulti-billion dollar company that doesn't much care for developers and users of its products. Oh, it says it cares, and for the incremental cost of an MSDN subscription it can buy the silence and obeisance of influential developers for years.
In the end, it will always suck to be a developer using Microsoft technology.
Here's the Microsoft bandwagon graveyard:
* 3D Movie Maker
* Active Documents
* ActiveX
* COM
* COM+
* Courier Tablet
* DAO
* dbWeb
* DDE
* Desktop Gadgets
* Encarta
* Expression and Expression Suite
* Frontpage
* HailStorm
* LINQ to SQL
* Live Labs
* Live Search Books, Live Search Academic
* Microsoft Bob
* Microsoft Equipt
* Microsoft Kin
* Microsoft Live
* Microsoft Live One Care
* Microsoft Max
* Microsoft Passport
* Microsoft Repository
* Money
* MSN Music
* OLE
* OneCare
* OS/2
* Remote Data Objects(RDO)
* Response Point
* Silverlight
* "Smart" Watches
* Soapbox
* SQL Server DMO
* SQL Server DTS
* Tablet PC
* VB
* VBA replaced by VSA
* Vine
* Vista
* Visual Basic
* Visual FoxPro
* Visual Interdev
* Visual JPlus Plus
* Visual Source Safe
* Web data access via IDC
* Windows DNA
* Windows for Tablets
* Windows Live Spaces
* WinFS
* Word Basic
* WordHelp (.hlp)
* XBox Live Service
* Zune
Many of these probably deserved to die. But Microsoft's propensity for suddenly marooning thousands of developers and millions of users at a single stroke is unconscionable.
In the end, it will always suck to be a developer using Microsoft technology.
Here's the Microsoft bandwagon graveyard:
* 3D Movie Maker * Active Documents * ActiveX * COM * COM+ * Courier Tablet * DAO * dbWeb * DDE * Desktop Gadgets * Encarta * Expression and Expression Suite * Frontpage * HailStorm * LINQ to SQL * Live Labs * Live Search Books, Live Search Academic * Microsoft Bob * Microsoft Equipt * Microsoft Kin * Microsoft Live * Microsoft Live One Care * Microsoft Max * Microsoft Passport * Microsoft Repository * Money * MSN Music * OLE * OneCare * OS/2 * Remote Data Objects(RDO) * Response Point * Silverlight * "Smart" Watches * Soapbox * SQL Server DMO * SQL Server DTS * Tablet PC * VB * VBA replaced by VSA * Vine * Vista * Visual Basic * Visual FoxPro * Visual Interdev * Visual JPlus Plus * Visual Source Safe * Web data access via IDC * Windows DNA * Windows for Tablets * Windows Live Spaces * WinFS * Word Basic * WordHelp (.hlp) * XBox Live Service * Zune
Many of these probably deserved to die. But Microsoft's propensity for suddenly marooning thousands of developers and millions of users at a single stroke is unconscionable.