It is not ironic. Windows is designed from ground up to make independent software deployment by proprietary software vendors as easy as possible. Easy deploymen

It is not ironic. Windows is designed from ground up to make independent software deployment by proprietary software vendors as easy as possible. Easy deployment is Windows' raison d'être. It is the antithesis of Unix which is hostile to that. That's what was behind "Developers! Developers! Developers!".