>I don't think the next big thing will be a new operating system -- that's thinking too shallow. What exactly do you have in mind? As long as the new thing is

>I don't think the next big thing will be a new operating system -- that's thinking too shallow. What exactly do you have in mind? As long as the new thing is Turing-complete, the path of least resistance says that we'll just drag all the old baggage over with us. The stack we have is incredibly malleable, there is no such thing as a sufficiently clean break. The ability to fix it now is as present as it ever will be, pretending otherwise is naval-gazing that relies on the assumption the process of architecting new paradigms for a fresh pasture and building out a new stack on top of that could somehow beat to market the more simple process of porting what we've already got and bolting on access to the new nicities.