It is more the case where Microsoft was able to use some of their clout. 
Developers will upgrade on a single target because of competition, but have 
no real incentive to port to a secondary target.

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>   Win95 did a much poorer job of running Win16 applications than OS/2 did.  
> Not that Win95 did any better running Win32 applications.  Microsoft just
> told developers that Win16 was the problem.  So developers promptly ran out
> and bought all the new Win95 development tools.  Which, of course, do a poor
> job of supporting older environments, forcing users to upgrade to Win95.
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