Today, while I was busy not implementing the Abiathar dependency wizard, I started reading "Tales of Application Compatibility", the author of which I do not know because it's a chapter from an eBook. Anyway, it's amazing. From what I can tell, the author was a software engineer on the Windows 95 dev team responsible for making sure Windows 3.1 programs ran on Windows 95.
The chapter is composed of many small anecdotes, each the story of an application whose horrifying abuse of the Windows API and common sense caused headaches for Microsoft. Microsoft couldn't just blame those coders because the general nontechnical population wouldn't understand; it would be assumed that it was a problem with Windows 95.
Anyway, go read it:
Tales of Application Compatibility
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