I used to work at Microsoft doing work that touched filesystem stuff a lot, and every single one of those points was known to me already. But at a certain poin

I used to work at Microsoft doing work that touched filesystem stuff a lot, and every single one of those points was known to me already. But at a certain point they ought to be able to say: the OS is not competitive with the state of the art in this area. It shouldn't matter what organizational or component boundaries create this situation, they should do more to fix it. Blaming the layering is a start I guess, but shouldn't be the end.