this is sort of like stopping when reading some tutorial on nginx and the example app the tutorial is using to show how nginx works is written in php because you're too cool for that php stuff.

The difference with Microsoft is that even if their product fails, you're still going to get support for years and years. Like, Silverlight was deprecated in 2012, and apparently it stopped being supported a month ago. That is why a lot of the enterprise folks like their products.