The BBC produced an excellent and troubling documentary about Japan's “contracted” labour within the nuclear industry. It also covers exposure to radiation in general in across the workforce. Search for "Nuclear Ginza"

The removal, or more accurately the lack of a UI is more to do with Microsoft getting applications to market quickly, rather than Microsoft working towards a UI-less OS. Take Exchange 2010 as one example, the initial release had fundamental configuration options missing from the UI and Admin’s needed to run Powershell scripts to get the system up and running in a production environment. However these missing configuration options appeared in subsequent Service Pack releases. Don Jones statement is basically a poor excuse for rushing applications to market when they are not fit for release.