Windows is collapsing!

InfoWorld has an excellent story about how Windows has grown to be bloated and unattainable.

"This is a large part of the reason [why] Windows Vista delivered primarily incremental improvements," they said. In turn, that became one of the reasons why businesses pushed back Vista deployment plans. "Most users do not understand the benefits of Windows Vista or do not see Vista as being better enough than Windows XP to make incurring the cost and pain of migration worthwhile."

I haven't realized anything worthwhile in Vista, maybe the new theme, maybe bragging about migrating to the latest Vista, but there is nothing that encourages people to migrate and more that discourages them.

"Apple introduced its iPhone running OS X, but Microsoft requires a different product on handhelds because Windows Vista is too large, which makes application development, support, and the user experience all more difficult," said Silver and MacDonald.

"Windows as we know it must be replaced," they said in their presentation.

I always thought that Microsoft should do as Apple and abandon its original OS architecture and switch to a UNIX/UNIX-like based kernel.