It was very much in keeping of the Microsoft of the era. Not out of maliciousness. Just a general lack of interest or knowledge of any non-Windows platform, b

It was very much in keeping of the Microsoft of the era. Not out of maliciousness. Just a general lack of interest or knowledge of any non-Windows platform, but a recognition that if Frontpage was going to be as dominant as they wanted, they at least needed to vaguely support it. Think the worst case of "Well it works on my machine"