On the other hand, this basically means just one line to the script to be run on each fresh install of Windows.
It's not like we lost the license to use Paint, did we?
You mean in order to place it back on the machines? Sure, just one line.
But there seems to be a rather big difference between basic software that is guaranteed to be available and software that requires any amount of scripting/preparation to install, even if it is just one line.
But there seems to be a rather big difference between basic software that is guaranteed to be available and software that requires any amount of scripting/preparation to install, even if it is just one line.