[issue27417] Call CoInitializeEx on startup

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

> If it allowed user code to access COM without needing a 3rd party dependency, I'd be +1, but I don't think that's being proposed here.

It's a prerequisite to adding features to the stdlib that access COM (whether or not COM is directly exposed to the user). But no, there's no new (useful) functionality being proposed in this particular issue.

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