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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

(devblogs.microsoft.com)
276 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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ryandrake ◴[16 May 25 17:16 UTC] No.44007802[source]▶
One thing the article did not answer is “why?” I think I am missing something but why did Microsoft feel they needed to ship icons for other software vendors’ applications? Wouldn’t Lotus and Quicken want to ship their own icons with their software?
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1. shdon ◴[16 May 25 17:24 UTC] No.44007891[source]▶
These were existing MS-DOS programmes that had already shipped. They wouldn't have shipped with a Windows icon as they were made before that Windows version existed (or at least shipped) and weren't even intended to run on that platform. Once Windows had shipped, and software vendors started making software for it, they will of course have included their own icons. The "why" is simply Microsoft wanting to make Windows play nice with users' existing software, and thus enhancing the user experience.