I would agree that it's the consequence of Microsoft's decisions and strategies (ie. not making enough trouble when app writes to application's directory, and such) that programmers didn't have to read through all the rules to make working programs. Still, I wouldn't consider it anyone's fault - Microsoft wanted to have more programs for Windows, and more programmers for it at the time, and this may have been a part of their strategy to get them.
The people discussiing here seem to agree with everything but the choice of words.
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