>>I was forced to switch to Windows from Unix because there was zero support for Unix among my network partners, who are key to my practice.
Those guys, all still good friends of mine, told me that however slick Unix might be, everyone wants Windows and that's where they were putting their resources. So, for Unix support, I was on my own.
>>As it turned out, they were right.

They were right that "everyone want[ed] Windows." Sure thing. There was a time when teenagers spent 24 hours camped outside stores to purchase one of the first copies of Windows 95. But for this to apply to the development mess- you would have to have been hanging out for a ridiculous Rube Goldberg 2015 environment for development. You wanted this, so vendors had to deliver it? Or vendors made inwardly focused decisions that backfired with consumers walking away in droves apart from developers hitched too closely to the vendor wagon?