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But your customers won't stop demanding file compatibility. If your competitors wait for you to complete a datatype library for a format that they don't want to do, you may as well have written them a check. And like many other synergistic pieces of software, it gets harder and harder to test, when someone else's software could be mucking up the system. This is a silghtly different situation than simple multitasking, because now your customers might be relying on something written by another company that crashes when *your* screen is to the front.