I have very little respect to people at Microsoft when it comes to technical side of things. Whenever I have to deal with their "creations" it's like they were motivated by malice, or part of their frontal cortex gone missing.

> The most obvious reason would be to use the executable itself to back the memory which the comment you replied to already hinted at.

Imagine that I've already read that, and I still see no reason to do that. So what? The code of the program will go missing? -- What's the big deal? Kill the process. User wanted to remove it anyways... Let the user decide what to do: system shouldn't second guess me.