Big picture: bad idea (Score 1)

The current Linux model and software such as Apache and Samba are exactly what the computer world need right now. My hope is they will drive the market towards reliable and inexpensive computing solutions and variants of the open source attitude. I think it is a bad idea to move Linux and the application support towards Windows interoperability. It's all the things about Linux that differ from Windows that I like. If IE is so good (and it is) then let's see a worthy competitor that takes advantage of the benefits of Linux (like security and robustness). This is much more appealing than adding a layer of abstraction to allow IE to run on Linux, abstraction layers are inheritantly going to be slow and buggy.