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Not sure he gets it. One of the big selling points of windows is its pursuit of backwards compatibility. As a windows dev and user I was close to having a heart attack until I saw "normal Windows" alongside. Sure, maybe they can't "pull it off" but in all frankness I'm more of a fan of utility than "usability". I want all my old apps to work as they worked in the original OS and working as well on the new OS.

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> One of the big selling points of windows is its pursuit of backwards compatibility.

To who? Does grandma give a shit, or will she just buy an iPad?

> As a windows dev and user I was close to having a heart attack until I saw "normal Windows" alongside.

Guys like you are why Microsoft can't let go. :)

Basically... to people who enter data into those 200-and-more-input-controls UIs, accountants who do horrible stuff with excel, secretaries who struggled hard to learn how to create a standard letter in MS Word 2003 and don't want to go through this experience every odd year and developers who run Visual Studio, a browser and fiddler side by side on two or three 24'' monitors. Ah, and last but not least businesses who are not very eager to write of billions in licenses and custom applications...

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