I like Win 7, but I've already drawn up a Win 8 wishlist

Anybody notice how he's basically describing a linux or bsd system?

I didn't read the article, but the line "...when Windows is done right, it can be a cracking OS." caught my eye. I wonder if the choice of words was deliberate.

It's interesting he seems to damn Windows with faint praise. As chalbersma said his wish list, with the xecption of Anti Virus seems a complete steal from Linux.

If the author of this article has read the EULA for Win7 and still use it in complete comfort, then I don't believe there is much that can be done for him. I don't care how good an operating system is. When the license agreement dictates the use of the machine at any level, then it is not the user's machine any more.

That's sad...

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@helios: I suspect much of the EULA is unenforceable. I also suspect most users and businesses never read it and cheerfully ignore it. If it ever were enforced they'd be horrified,

> I suspect much of the EULA is unenforceable

Why? If MS chooses to enforce the EULA, especially on businesses, it should be enforceable. I doubt that saying "we didn't pay attention" would be a legitimate defense.

Quoting:Combined antivirus/antispyware/firewall

This seems like a no-brainer to me. Microsoft should bring all the security software under one application in the next incarnation of Windows.

He's still a Windows user to the core if he thinks anti virus is done in the application software layer. Done right AV is handled in the system kernel and you don't see something like a million virus varities created.

"End to 16-bit/32-bit support" ?? The world has not yet moved 100% to 64-bit, and for a lot of users there is no need to, and may even pay a bit of performance penalty. I think this is an error.

The rest of the list is pitiful, and carefully ignores core problems like security, stability, real multi-user support, idiotic EULAs that I believe are really jokes, and with each new iteration their lawyers laugh themselves sicker at the suckers, different Windows versions that are merely differently crippled to justify a different price tag, and a 5 GB install that includes zero productivity software. 5GB on a Linux system gives you just about everything there is: office, developer, multimedia, system and network administration... sigh.

In reality, rumours have it MS is aiming at the 'Linux' experience - with one and only one OS for desk-, laptops, nettops, netbooks and smartphones.

Someone else already occupies the smartphone space. In fact, a few someone's.

Microsoft's attempt to crack open that space was a dismal flop. Thanks in part to their willingness to tolerate system crashes, and thanks in part to others' presence giving customers a choice.

And they were too early with the whole UMPC thing - which nowadays is called 'smartmook' and doesn't run Windows.