Chaining programs with pipe

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <1187795716.083417.299540 at q4g2000prc.googlegroups.com>, Gabriel
Genellina wrote:

> On 22 ago, 11:08, Grant Edwards <gra... at visi.com> wrote:
> 
>> but I'm a Unix guy who occasionally tries
>> to ship a Windows version of a Python app: the concept of a
>> process defaulting to having a stderr or stdout that wasn't
>> writable was utterly foreign to me.
>
> Ah, that explains your previous post telling that things on Windows
> don't work as they "should". They work, but not necesarily as a
> "foreigner" would expect.

So what's the good reason for Windows having unusable defaults for stderr
and stdout, then?