Microsoft is a giant experiment in the stretchability of the fabric of
  society -- just how far can Microsoft go in ripping everybody off
  (including their own employees, who take part in a giant pyramid game
  with their "stock options") and still not rip the fabric of society to
  pieces?  reneging on support contracts is just a _very_ minor part of
  this experiment.  consider yourself experimented on.

  there is only one solution: do not use Microsoft products.  do not expose
  yourself to _anything_ they do.  the day will come when it is much more
  important in presidential campaigns and to carreers in general that you
  have not used Microsoft than that you have not taken certain drugs.  the
  day will come when we figure out which planet Bill Gates was thrown out
  of and then we can go blow it up.  in the meantime, resistance is not
  futile.  only the weak of mind will be assimilated, and they are no loss,
  anyway.

  "Microsoft hired his head.  It's in a jar in Redmond."  -- Dilbert

  all this laughing in the face of Evil aside, Lisp vendors _care_ about
  their developers, because, unlike Microsoft, they can afford to.