Many of my coworkers pine for a Mac because their Windows experience is so awful. They don't care about any of the features Apple touts. They just want the stab

Many of my coworkers pine for a Mac because their Windows experience is so awful. They don't care about any of the features Apple touts. They just want the stability - updates don't happen unless you request for them to happen, your machine doesn't force you to re-boot when you need to get something done right now. There's a myriad of annoyances that add up to making Windows an infuriating platform to use when needing to get work done. Maybe the next version of Windows (or whatever it's to be called) will see Microsoft exit out of the OS business. I've often thought Microsoft should play the script Apple played: use a Linux kernel, wrap the Windows APIs around that kernel, create a Windows desktop environment. Most of your existing apps from the past 30 years would still run and you no longer have to maintain a kernel and drivers. Heck, you might even offer a "bring your own kernel" offering where the user can pick which distro they want and run your Windows desktop environment when desired. I'd love to see the numbers on the net profit Microsoft is making from Windows and how much pull-in business Windows is still generating for them.