Don't forget the Blu-ray album reported the other week. To me, it just smacks of trying to get rid of music which is portable; let's all go back to strapping hulking disc (or, god forbid, cassette) players to our belts with bags of the relevant storage medium on our backs. Not that I think this so-called hi-def audio is a bad idea, just the execution of it..

..and it undoubtedly will run (pure) .NET apps just fine given a version of the framework ships with Win8; TFA talks about x86 and ARM native apps, not .NET

On paper, yes. In practicality, no. Did you ever even (try to) use Windows 95? The GUI and multitasking was a very poor attempt at what other other systems had been doing better for years; the plug-n-play aspect was a joke - the plug-n-pray anecdote duly deserved, if you could get working drivers.

Wait .. why does it feel I'm describing Vista?

Ahem, first line from the RKM: Libraries (Commodore, Inc. 1992), page 2:

"The Amiga uses preemptive multitasking.. "

..and for those of us who take care in our programming - why would you want memory protection? :) Hehe.