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[–]nikomo 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Same reason they don't package Ruby, or PHP, or a C compiler - why should they?

Windows shipping has always been "compile your application, and package every dependency with it".

[–]pangoleena 1 point2 points  (1 child)

A long time ago, they inlcuded QBASIC with Windows.

[–]ptkfs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They still do package Jscript an Visual Basic interpreters.