Maybe Microsoft was trying to "help out the Python community". But what they did was just awful. Python is, by far, the most popular system glue language in the world. People have spent decades writing it and running it on windows. It has years of culture built up around version detection and deployment strategies, so that developers understand how to get "python" and exactly what they are getting when they do.

And now all of a sudden you run a "python" script and you get something that is not a python interpreter.

That's just insane. I don't doubt Microsoft's motives, but good grief is this dumb.