[dayglored]

>> *What Microsoft REALLY needs to do, that Apple did a decade ago, is declare their existing OS architecture dead, take the generally excellent Windows XP Explorer-based GUI, and place it over an operating system that isn’t riddled with holes and patched together with spit and baling wire.*

> They are doing that - the OS division at microsoft research is devoting a tremendous amount of resources to the problem as is portions of the OS group.

I don't doubt that they're devoting tremendous resources to trying to re-invent the wheel -- they've been at it for way too long, unsuccessfully. It's way past time to PRODUCE something and market it.

It's not that they're stupid. Microsoft has wonderful and brilliant people. But they're stuck in "NIH" (Not Invented Here) mindset.

If Microsoft could just admit that they were right 30 years ago when they were a Unix company, and go back to their OS roots.

MICROSOFT ALREADY KNOWS THE ANSWER. They just can't admit it.

[aft_lizard]

It’s not Unix it’s the legacy issues that MS has to deal with, they would be stupid to move forward on a Unix platform where porting software would be easy to various Linux flavors thus making installing a paid OS questionable at best for most people and businesses.