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Should they have evolved it to be cross-platform? What about Apple's Metal API? I don't get why people expect Microsoft to do things that would benefit their competitors.

> The lesson though, is that APIs "succeed", no matter what the quality, based on how many engineers are invested in having them succeed.

Exactly. Microsoft was willing to make things work for them. Something other vendors wouldn't do (including those who are ostensibly "open source").