Perhaps Microsoft is doing what I suggested at least 10 years ago on the Mini-Microsoft website: That Microsoft "do an Apple". Apple took an underlying BSD bas

Perhaps Microsoft is doing what I suggested at least 10 years ago on the Mini-Microsoft website: That Microsoft "do an Apple". Apple took an underlying BSD base and layered the proprietary Apple GUI on top of it. I had suggested that Microsoft use a Linux base, and layer a (proprietary, perhaps) Windows GUI over the top of that. At the time, the softies laughed down that suggestion. But I still think it's a valid Windows business model.