[chiph]

Shiny new look (which I like, BTW) layered on top of the cruft that is Win32.

As great a job that Microsoft has done with maintaining compatibility with legacy apps, at some point you have to introduce something new. I'd like to see a new systems API on top of the kernel that is object-oriented, and perhaps has single-level store and is processor architecture agnostic so I only have to ship one image for both Intel & ARM.

[blibble]

uh, isn't that exactly what the new Windows 8 approach is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime