Quick Follow-up

Following the NYTimes article about Windows sucking, ZDNet has a follow-up that talks about Midori, a potential Windows rewrite (refactor :-) ) related to another research project they have going on called Singularity.

Singularity is the research into a microkernel version of Windows. Microsoft says this will never see the commercial/consumer world ever. The author of the ZDNet article, Mary Jo Foley, however, thinks that Midori is a related project with a lot of MS big-wig weight behind it. I wonder if Microsoft could have a much less bloated version of their OS with the security advancements of Vista. I wonder even more, however, if it would be the complex, convoluted, mess of a bunch of settings that Vista has become. I don't know where everything is anymore. I hope very seriously that they have learned from their past mistakes (I'm looking at you, NT, Vista, Millenium, et al) and organized things a bit better, and maybe moved to a better user interface that people can understand.

This all assumes, however, that Midori is even what she believes it is. Will we see? I wonder, personally, how much it would take to topple the bureaucracy that Microsoft has probably become to result in a usable operating system, a usable website, and software that doesn't always tell me what it thinks I should do, but rather does what I ask it to do.