Re:Trade-off my ass... (Score 1)

Of course, corporations would upgrade in droves every time you broke their existing LOB applications... wait... You are making some startling assumptions: * LOB applications are still developed and maintained. * The corporation has the code for it. * The original developer is still around. I agree that more things could be done via emulation. But, actually these have been in windows for pretty much every release. DOS VMs down to hardware emulation, WOW16 for Win3.1 App compat on NT Win31. Wow32 for application usage on Win64. Possibly the developers stressed performance to much in the implementations which negatively impacted the next version too much. But, it is hardly as if these ideas were foreign to MS. And, everyone forgets that until OS/X Mac OS was a very stinky pile of very poorly secured code. MS had had a viable, secure, desktop OS since NT 3.51.