Re:Microsoft just don't get it. (Score 1)

You're right, it is about how you build things, and how software is built predisposes one to a method of incremental improvements. Yes, software generally predisposes itself to a method of incremental improvements. However, APIs don't. Microsoft has always been obsessed with maintain backwards compatibility with older programs. So the current Windows APIs "evolved" rather than were "developed". The result is some of the nastiest APIs (like Win32) ever created by a corporation of Microsoft's resources. IMO, this is the biggest reason why Windows has been and will remain such an unstable and insecure platform. They can't fix the APIs without losing backwards compatibility (which they are unwilling to do). And they can't fix something that evolved over the period of many years in a single month.