Linked by Richard Keiichi Yamauchi, Jr. on Mon 27th Jan 2003 17:58 UTC
Some of you might be thinking, why? Well, I think it's about time. MCSE's, VB Programmers, and techies have been using Windows for years, and I think it's about time Windows moves to the desktop for ordinary people.
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Keeping this short cause I don't like wasting my time. But there are clearly two extreme's that OS creators must balance constantly. They are function vs user-friendlyism. Some people like to know technical information like how many Gigabytes of hard disk space they have, others couldn't care. This makes it difficult for application creators and OS creators to create one-flavor-suites-all software.
With your example about installing software. I like telling my computer where to install programs to, so I can organize my files. I can't stand when installers just decide for me where the files should go. Some people may like "Program Files" others may rather install programs into several directories broken into categories like "Games", "Multimedia", "Document Editing" ...
Anyways. I think you are onto something, but I think you should begin to examine the tradeoffs. I have 1001 ideas of how windows could be better. (Like transfering settings from one computer to the next easier...) But there are many things that need to be considered.