Well I've got a 3d pro (and a precision pro that came with this PC for righties only) and I have to say NO WAY!
I've run WCIV '95 with 4 different joysticks and on a P90, P200, P266, P300, P400 and my P500 4 different joysticks, 6 different machines and the problem with the joystick deadzone has always been there. Just try putting your joystick over something small in the distance and try to line up with it and see how hard it is. Now try it in Prophecy or Starlancer.
Oh and you can't decompile windows, if you could there wouldn't have been all that fuss about hackers having access to microsoft and stealing the source.