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Of course MS didn't care about their 'standard'. They assumed they're the only ones using it and/or don't really care about breaking other systems.



Sometimes they broke other systems on purpose, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code.


The other direction, too: "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run!"




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