<quote>Microsoft develops and publishes 'protocols' (used lightly) and everyone hates them because they are pushing workable code out on everyone else...</quote>
"workable code" is a tangent and really has nothing to do with the reason we avoid Microsoft protocols. More to the point we want to avoid APIs with elements that facilitate vendor-specific implementations i.e., lock-in. Like MS' OOXML, Oauth 2.0 has special interest written all over it.
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<quote>Microsoft develops and publishes 'protocols' (used lightly) and everyone hates them because they are pushing workable code out on everyone else...</quote>
"workable code" is a tangent and really has nothing to do with the reason we avoid Microsoft protocols. More to the point we want to avoid APIs with elements that facilitate vendor-specific implementations i.e., lock-in. Like MS' OOXML, Oauth 2.0 has special interest written all over it.