Nice breakdown, but if you ask me, even the article's suggested reduction to "only" 5 screens is ridiculous. There are many things I've always hated about Wind

Nice breakdown, but if you ask me, even the article's suggested reduction to "only" 5 screens is ridiculous. There are many things I've always hated about Windows, and this kind of brain-deadness is near the top of the list. The iPhone App Store model is pretty much perfect: one step, "install the thing" (or two, to authenticate, if you haven't recently). Any progress is asynchronous, and it is completely obvious when the installation is finished. All of the app's files are in one place, which eliminates 99% of the reason an installer/uninstaller seems necessary in the first place. Granted, the iPhone auto-selects an install location for security reasons, but there's no reason a desktop OS couldn't choose someplace "obvious and reasonable" to save a step for the user. Of course, this also requires that apps be easily relocated after the fact, which is another stupid flaw in many OSes...