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I'm a Mac fanboi, I have been since 1984 and an Apple fanboi since I first used a Apple ][ back in 1980 :-)

Having said that, I hope MS continues to improve Windows. A lot of people use it, and worse, a lot of people "have" to use it, be it work or whatever (btw, I would say the same if people "have" to use anything, including OS X). I have always hoped Windows would be something I would "want" to use, but so far (including 7), it isn't. I have no desire to use it over OS X. I still prefer 2k3 of all the Windows variants...

Now, having said all that... I do recommend 7 to people using XP and certainly those that moved to Vista. If people are buying a new machine however, and don't need any vertical apps, I get them to at least check out the Mac :-)

I'm hoping in Windows 8, the build from scratch (maybe *nix as a base, not NT (he he)) and sandbox Windows 7.

Seconded. On the other hand, I feel that they *do* need to come up with a non-VM alternative to Win32

They already have, it's called .NET, too bad, they won't even get behind it.

There's a reason I particularly said "non-VM" based And yes, they seriously need to eat their own dogfood, hell they created that phrase

Who says they don't?

Lots of new Microsoft tools are .Net based.

Why should they drop lots of perfect running applications just to rewrite them in .Net?

So you expect MS to rewrite the entire win32 api? That's just crazy. There is nothing wrong with the .net runtime, it uses jit so there isn't really a perfomance penalty, especially with the computers we are running today.

Yes, the answer to the first question in OSNews' FAQ clearly states all article here, should be about Operating Systems and nothing else. It aslo emphasis that all articles must be read, even if you don't like them, and that therefore all articles that do not interest sbenitezb should be removed.

Edited 2009-10-24 14:03 UTC

I'm pretty sure MS produces a couple of different Operating systems...