While I don't believe Windows should become Linux, I do believe that it would be cost-effective for Microsoft to do an "Apple OSX" stunt. Apple saves lots of m

While I don't believe Windows should become Linux, I do believe that it would be cost-effective for Microsoft to do an "Apple OSX" stunt. Apple saves lots of money and developers by building the OSX GUI over the top of the BSD foundation. The BSD guys produce a FOSS operating system. The Apple guys produce the Apple desktop that runs on top. Microsoft could do the same. I once suggested on the Mini-Microsoft forum about 15 years back that Microsoft do an "Apple" and layer the Windows desktop over a Linux foundation. They angrily discarded that idea at the time. But Microsoft is still having difficulties in trying to do 'the whole shebang'. They just don't have the resources to produce both the underlying OS and the Windows desktop at the speed and quality that is necessary. Either they have to cut corners, or suffer huge delays in getting the good stuff out the door. (Usually they cut corners AND don't get interface consistency across the desktop.)