You need the right OS underneath. Ideally something based on persistent objects like OS/400 and with the networking aspect of Plan9 so that local and remote re

You need the right OS underneath. Ideally something based on persistent objects like OS/400 and with the networking aspect of Plan9 so that local and remote resources can be treated the same. The GUI would need a similarly smart approach and given an OO persistance layer I'd say that applications would just be objects that composed other objects - the document object would be your wordprocessor and it would be good at arranging and presenting other types of objects into 2d representations at A4 size. The web browser would presumably just be a superset of the document object or might not even be needed at all as a web page is just another kind of document. You'd still need a "fresh sheet of paper" concept but also a history so you could go back and search for what you were looking at/working on previously. Also different contexts - like all the stuff you need for one bit of work and another context for some other kind or play/work. I don't think windows are the worst way of doing this and I'm certain that you'll end up wanting to look at different things side by side or whatever and that will become windows by another name but there might be subtle improvements.