Well, the main way this would be a success would be for Microsoft to do it, and to back-release it for all Windows back to 98.

However, it’s true any company could write it as long as it were free, so that software packages that drank the kool-aid could bundle this master daemon with their programs in case the user doesn’t already have it.

But for it to really win, it needs the iron fist of Microsoft, which might eventually start penalizing programs that don’t use the master daemon. For example, when you install them it should pop up a dialog “This program wants to run permanently, consuming system resources, in violation of Microsoft recommendations. Do you want to allow this?”

Of course users would get used to clicking yes, but it would cause enough support problems for the companies that they would switch to using the master daemon.