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No.
Under the rules of customer driven development, sure, but this is the Windows universe.
Anyway, too many programs depend on the entrenched crap. All the block math would be screwed up between drivers and applications and we'd end up with more knots in the spaghetti.
And it would have meant pulling engineering resources off DRM and Trusted Computing (gag).
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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