> 1. You can use UNC paths to access remote servers via SMB

Relevant article from The Old New Thing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060509-30/?p=31...

Programs (this is true for most mainstream operating systems) can become network facing without realizing it. I've sometimes found a bunch of Windows programs sometimes tends to assume that I/O completes "instantly" (even if async I/O has been common on Windows for a very long time) and don't have a good UX for cancelling long running I/O operations