It'd honestly be a shame if it did (but I understand the stresses that might cause it to happen).<p>Flash back to ~1986, and Bill Gates wrote an article for a Byte magazine special edition in which he described a unified version of BASIC implemented across a suite of GUI productivity applications.<p>Keep in mind, this is before Windows 3.0 and the Microsoft hegomony, before Word for Windows, (and Access, Project, Visio, etc.), before OLE/COM/ActiveX/IDispatch, and all of which are arguably necessary to complete the vision he outlined in the article. Ten years later, the vision of the article was realized, and thirty-five years later, it not only still exists, it's still useful across a huge cross section of computer users. (Despite the radical changes in the industry over that time.)<p>Microsoft has gotten a lot of flack over the years, and a lot of it has been earned, but the ability to identity a useful target state ten years in the future and rally an organization to achieve that goal is an amazing accomplishment.