I wonder if it's to support the fact that Windows 1.0 bugs were tracked in a text file. Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200317-00/?p=10356

I wonder if it's to support the fact that Windows 1.0 bugs were tracked in a text file. Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200317-00/?p=103566 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200317-00/?p=10... > The history of defect tracking in the Windows team goes back to Windows 1.0, which used a text file.