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by wvenable 5229 days ago
> Could someone explain what motivates Microsoft to try and "completely reimagine" their OS every time they iterate?

Raymond Chen posted some reasoning for this on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/25/14125...

If they don't change anything visually then nobody thinks anything has changed under the hood.