That's the problem. If Windows was more like Linux or BSD, you could take the good parts and omit the bad parts. They're doing genuinely good and - for mainstre

That's the problem. If Windows was more like Linux or BSD, you could take the good parts and omit the bad parts. They're doing genuinely good and - for mainstream desktop systems - innovative stuff in the kernel and surrounding subsystems, but once you reach the Windows shell, the desire to change stuff "willy-nilly" rears its head. Classic UI as found in Server 2003 or XP was great and if you wanted you could use themes, but now it's one highly questionable and user-unfriendly style after another, with the waste of screen real estate on top. Microsoft as a whole doesn't get it and the teams doing the good stuff must be in pain, seeing what's put on top of their creations as user-facing bits.