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by joe_guy 1519 days ago
It was also a massive usability boost. The process of "insert installation CD" then "nothing happens" was a bad experience for an extreme segment of the user base.

In 1995 the idea of commercial products being adversarial is low. For the very few cases of the driver they install being unwanted, there's countlessly more cases of it being wanted.

This wasn't "secure by design," it was "usable by design." And for 99.9% of the people, it was likely both.