Agreed. Windows has no active colour management at the OS level, not the way Mac OS X does. Windows ICM is passive, and only does what a printing application calls upon it to do. If an app is printing targets wrong it's because the app is misconfigured (i.e. user error) or the app is broken. I don't know everything in the world
, but I'm not aware of any issues printing non-colour managed targets in any application on Windows, past or present. I print targets from i1Profiler, ACPU, Qimage, ImagePrint, ColorMunki Photo, old Photoshop, etc. and never have issues as long as the apps and printer drivers are configured correctly.
I'll caveat that by saying I don't use Windows 8.x or 10.x, so perhaps something with them has changed. But I don't expect that to be the case...