Comment by mook

> Normally the issues are from proprietary applications that were buggy to begin with, and never bothered to read the documentation. I'd say to a paying customer that if a behaviour is documented, it's their problem.

… But that's exactly why Win32 was great; Microsoft actually spent effort making their OS was compatible with broken applications. Or at least, Microsoft of long past did; supposedly they worked around a use-after-free bug in SimCity for Windows 3.x when they shipped Windows 95. Windows still has infrastructure to apply application-specific hacks (Application Compatibility Database).

I have no reason to believe their newer stacks have anything like this.