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Originally Posted by a435843
Let me fill in the readers on that one...MS hid some system functions from early versions of Windows (the "hidden Windows API") that they didn't tell WordPerfect, Lotus, etc. about. In fact, they hid them from all developers, which is why custom Windows development really languished in the early years, certainly before the introduction of Visual Basic.
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MS is still continuing this kind of dickery. While the rest of the world agrees on various standards and abide by them, Microsoft routinely makes their own standards that vary slightly. MS stays close enough that software developed by other companies can run on Windows but varies enough that none of them will run as well on Windows as the software MS develops itself.
Some of the "variations" from standards allow MS backdoors into Windows, which is also why Windows, IE, etc. are so much more vulnerable to malware.