Thanks for the article. Hopefully your laugh wasn't a cynical laugh... It seems more relevant than ever to study the fundamental discoveries made in the early

Thanks for the article. Hopefully your laugh wasn't a cynical laugh... It seems more relevant than ever to study the fundamental discoveries made in the early history of Windows. We don't know the magnitude of how much the rendering API affects the success of an operating system. It would be safe for a novel OS to heed the importance of the rendering API. But more abstractly, it could be that the best novel OS competitor to Windows is simply the open-source flavor. It would be stronger evidence to see someone building Windows 1.0 in a modern sense, stronger than any other evidence, that a serious competitor is incoming. The next OS won't be written in Javascript (sorry React).