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Originally Posted by Quoth
Very many Win9x programs didn't work on NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 (even real 32 bit ones) and plenty didn't work on Windows XP. Device Drivers incompatible at many stages of Windows leaving expensive HW orphaned or the need to have an old box with Win98, or NT 4.0 or XP.
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And going back much farther, anybody else remember the claims that the Microsoft Mantra was "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run"? And I vividly remember when the forced change to Windows 3.1 came about, and there was no appliction software available from anybody but Microsoft. Microsoft would no longer license DOS for sale and only released Windows APIs to developers at the last minute.