It was a rhetorical question. I'm sure most of their researchers know why it is enabled (because the registry is marked blah blah). They were asking why did Mic

It was a rhetorical question. I'm sure most of their researchers know why it is enabled (because the registry is marked blah blah). They were asking why did Microsoft decide that users should be capable of embedding executables inside a document format that inherently cannot have executable code stuffed inside it and frankly does not need executable code stuffed inside it.