With roughly a 10Gb minimal install footprint; Windows 7 is composed of (roughly): 7Gb of DRM, 1Gb of committee designed UI fluff that adds no form to function, 1.5Gb of Microsoft proprietary shovel-ware (browser, crapplets, mono-ware), 500Mb OS. The 'new technology, features and benefits' are all Committee, At tourney, Marketing Weenie derivative fluff that have little or nothing in the way of real innovation and a everything to do with revenue generation and marketing copy -- and carry enormous heft and bloat as a consequence. With Management, Marketing and Development bureaucracy top heavy and ungainly then what IBM employed to develop OS/2, and with less in the way of objective design goals -- it shouldn't surprise anyone that the 'new OS' is little more then 'Vista SE'. I used to be a Microsoft Fan, but now I think it's shocking and disgusting that products like Windows 7, and all the anti-competitive chicanery is the best that a company with Microsoft's resources can do...

I was being sarcastic; the examples in business and industr are endless...

A bloated monopoly, swimming in too much easy money; devolving from the meritocracy that got it where it is to a cumbersome bureaucracy -- makes bloated unoriginal software products by process of bloated and awkward bureaucratic committee design; and applies a concomitant approach to research, development and it's application. We've never seen anything like this before... ^_^

While this outcome was inevitable and just effect; what's sad about it is the Santa Cruz Operation was originally a pretty cool company that made a pretty cool UNIX -- one of the first that ran and ran really well on a PC with a lot of feature 'firsts'. It's unfortunate that a more functional and collaborative approach to UNIX and just doing business wasn't taken by SCO's new owners... It's hard to feature why more UNIX Developers and Partners don't work together to standardize UNIX and with it Linux, and in turn to better distinguish their products. This wouldn't just be healthier, better business practice; it's a lot more FUN for all involved. I can't imagine someone like Darl McBride or any of his legal cronies go to work anticipating a fun filled day of innovation, value creation or excitement about the what they're helping sustain and foster...