[xorcist]

> probably because \ is used in windows paths,

Or.. you could actually encourage people to use sane path separators. The rest of the world uses a normal slash which works most of the time in Windows too.

CP/M lost. URLs won.

It's like UTF-16. They somehow had the means to replace Windows-1252 with UTF-16, but they can't bring themselves to move to UTF-8 which everyone else and the web uses instead.