Re:This is what amazes me (Score 1)

Smidget, it is called progress. We can do so much more today with all the myriad development ressources at our command. In response to the other posters, all I can say is that while there may be other "projects" like Looking Glass and Cairo, Avalon is not just an experiment, it is really going to be on many, many systems. There's a big difference. It will really be used by many, many businesses and people. Its not going to be an option. Microsoft's future OSes will have Avalon graphics system built-in. Don't you see the importance of this? Until I can install a Linux distro that has LG or Cairo on it by default, and that I have great development tools, and that I have a sufficiently large target userbase running it, it means squat.