Which actually takes away from it in several places, IMHO.

If you read the savagery about the standard dialog stuff,

1. The author inserts pointless opinion about the likely success or failure of that project

2. The author may have been very wrong? I am not a Microsoft archeologist, but it looks like the goal of having significant sets of standard dialogs as a shared library was in fact, wildly successful?

In a lot of ways, it was a bright spot in programs that fucked the UI up for everything else - the standard dialogs were so standard and good that when java and other things had their own file/etc dialogs, everyone noticed and complained.