On the subject of getting rid of applications on installing, this is half what I meant, but the idea is still good.
What I meant was that they are developing a base operating system, that runs in a dos like mode, that runs all the basic processes. Basicly, the whole operating system can be minimzed to about 100mb, meaning that the older pc's can run it to.
This massively benefits servers, that dont need to be visual, and just process the information fast. Not only this, if you build a base, others can build, cjange, and optimize the operating system to how they want.
Imagine an operating system that you could customly make, with a wizard, and optimize it to do any job, any size, any anything. That would be absolutely amazing. I once came across the man trying to build an operating system in a wizard, build it yourself like format. 9 years later, nobody has heard of him.....
He might have died making it or something.
I know this is all very optimistic, but the way technology is going, we also need to be looking to the future. After all, to be like Windows, we need to think like Windows.....
Dan