The real dirty, little secret behind this... (Score 1)

What M$ is *actually* doing is **FINALLY** ditching the MS-DOS that has been secretly running under each version of Windows since the beginning (like the over-worked hamster family secretly hidden in every Prius) and they are now going to start using DR-DOS underneath it all. They are just going to pay the $25,000 Buy Out cost for DR-DOS and be done with it all once and for all. Obviously, ^THAT^ is where all the incompatibilities will stem from...