IT:AD:Patterns:MS Is A Vendor Strategy
Summary
This is just a reminder that once you understand why IT:AD:Patterns:Vendors Suck Strategy, that you don't give a free pass to Microsoft.
Especially because it's the provider of the most number of software components we use. They have even more of an inpact on our software development costs than any other provider:
- If they are stable, and don't change, it means their product is falling behind the competition and we are not including in our software the best options for our clients.
- If they inovate, the change has a high chance of intersecting with our application's code.
Process
Always encapsulate and isolate vendor code to the edges of your application, as already described on the following page: IT:AD:Patterns:Vendors Suck Strategy.