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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. layer8 ◴[16 May 25 23:48 UTC] No.44010814[source]▶

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The article links to earlier blog posts that explain the “why”.

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