I think this is wonderful for people who are interested in learning programming. Right now one of the biggest hurdles to learning programming is just getting the damn environment set up. Why does it have to be so hard? How many people never learn to program because they can't get "hello world" to print out?

This could make it extremely easy. "What programming language should I use?" "Learn Python." "How do I install it?" "Through the Windows installer." Boom, done. They're off to the races.

People who want control and specifics are advanced enough to figure out how to get that themselves.