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Originally Posted by Katsunami
While I can relate to some of the software changes, I always wonder why stuff like a floppy disk driver would be removed. What does it gain; 2 KB hard disk space, and 5 KB memory consumption?
While I don't use floppies anymore, there are a lot of devices that use floppies; many instruments (piano's, keyboards, organs, etc), and industrial machines. Granted, there are ways now to replace those floppy drives with a 'Virtual Floppy Emulator" that uses either USB-sticks or SD-cards, but not everybody has done so yet.
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They are removed from the *default* packaging but support isn't removed.
They are still developed and available...on the online driver repository.
As to why?
Because they have a small usage base and because every little bit helps. A USB drive here, a minor game there, it adds up eventually. And it doesn't just impact the distribution package, it also affects the recovery partition.
Windows historically has tended to err on the side of including as much as possible to facilitate offline operation (earning it a reputation for "bloat") but offline-only is a lot less common. And lean is useful on the low end, where Windows is weakest.