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

(devblogs.microsoft.com)
280 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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. indymike ◴[16 May 25 19:08 UTC] No.44008835[source]▶
Microsoft wanted to make their new GUI shell for dos look good. There were no apps with icons so they put the most popular and some good stand ins so their new GUI file manager/launcher worked well.