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by Zenst 4432 days ago
in 1998 I was working with VS and had a bug with OCX and was told that the bug was due to VS not working with the current IE version as well in places and was fixed in the new release of VS due out.

So I'd say very interweaved if history has its design legacy mantra.
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asveikau 4432 days ago
IIRC Internet Explorer used to overwrite the shell DLLs which contain a lot of random helpers and stuff that is not strictly shell related but tempting to make your application depend on. I remember this being a frequent source of "app not working, probably works on the developer's machine" type issues, especially in the time period where this was changing a lot.
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