Somethings shouldn't be combined, like nectar and ambrosia.

Not any, most likely. Windows barely reboots for its own updates and most installs don't need the reboot process as they no longer modify Windows system files.

Apple took the GUI from Xerox.

You'll see windows for various applications even after closing explorer.exe, and you can actually still open (via file->open in an application's window) an explorer file manager window. So the window manager isn't exactly explorer.exe.

I'll never understand why anyone wants the up button back? All you have to do is click the previous folder's name or use back if you came from that folder. After using the new address bar, I am much faster than I was before in getting file management tasks done. The ribbon will be a great addition and will work beautifully with touch.

The ribbon doesn't break this, it just changes it. Large buttons are the ones most used and they gradually get smaller until it is a menu button.

I like it

they are worth more after an artist dies because that artist isn't creating any new art.

the lock on the file only exists while it is being read into RAM.

All I was saying is they are a success in the market right now. They are likely to net a positive return in the next few years.

Now that they are profitable, they will eventually be profitable overall. They have the better box for in the living room: games, music, video. The main thing I like about Microsoft is they keep the competition going.

A worldwide flood is predictable?

so it is different

dinosaur remains are found in rock that was laid down during the worldwide flood. Which a worldwide flood would do a serious number on most ideas currently in geology.

right, like the xbox brings in such a small return.