[com2kid]

Eh, it was a cool idea. Way ahead of its time, like a ton of 90s MS technology.

Hell they tried remote RPC stuff and what, 30 years later protobufs comes along and everyone declare's Google's library to be LOL amazing.

TBF I've used both COM and protobufs (in the same team!!!) and and protobufs was 100x easier to work with.

But still, some of the those old ideas of MS were really good, just IMHO they were limited by the languages of the time. Programming in raw C or 90s C++ was hard enough as is, trying to add entire new technologies on top of that, eh, not nice.

And of course back then all software releases were big bang versions every 3 or 4 years and you to support all previous versions basically forever, so yeah, difficult limitations to create new technologies under.

Lots of good lessons to be learned though!