I'll agree. That was sortof the point of the last paragraph... Right now (to use your analogy), Microsoft is trying to sell us bigger and better pre-amps whil

I'll agree. That was sortof the point of the last paragraph... Right now (to use your analogy), Microsoft is trying to sell us bigger and better pre-amps while everybody is buying all-in-wonder digital systems. Everything is getting smaller (netbooks, smartphones like the iPhone and the Android), but Microsoft is about to release another OS with a HUGE hardware investment required in order to even run it. (edit: I was totally wrong about this. The hardware requirement for windows 7 can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Hardware_requirements http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Hardware_requirements and is rather minimal). I was wrong to say "the end of desktop development"...more the end of an era or desktop OS development. Microsoft doesn't seem to get this (yet).