Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

This did not need an entire blog post. The title's one liner sums it up fine.

The code base has now been recycled 5 times over, and they keep adding layers to it instead of cleaning it up.

(One thing I admire about Apple. When the OS code got old and crufty, they weren't afraid to start at the beginning and do it right.)

Windows has had to promise and deliver complete backward compatibility to retain their market share. They've painted themselves into a corner, and at a certain point, they are going to have to break that promise or figure out some clever way to unchain themselves from that anchor. (I think I read something about them trying virtualization as a possible solution.)