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Originally Posted by ptyork
Already exists. It's called Linux.
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If I had a nickel for every time someone came into a discussion about Windows and pushed Linux as the solution to all problems... well, I'd have more money than every Linux vendor combined.
I fail to see how an, in a discussion about Windows backwards-compatibility, that Linux could possibly be considered a rational solution. Linux has essentially no Windows compatibilty (Wine and similar tools considered).
If real solid backwards compatibility is the requirement, then continuing to run the existing Windows architecture is obviously the best answer. But I still maintain that Microsoft could remove much of it, pushing it to a virtual compatibility layer, and would still be a better compatibility option than Linux (or OS/X). They wrote the OS, they know all of the little hooks and tweaks necessary to run it in a virtual layer.