It just gets piled higher and deeper. One day perhaps they'll listen. What we need is a bare bones, robust and reliable machine interface on which to run our software. Put the API into the Public Domain and let the world develop its own software (much as it does now, in fact, behind the scenes ... but the plebs in the street know little or nothing about all that, of course).
There used to be a thing called DOS.
Meanwhile, in my experience, Windows 2000 has been the most reliable Windows OS. Pity they didn't just stick with that one. But, there again, the "customer" expects a new version every couple of years now, does he not? After being conditioned to think that way, that is. Remember Ivan Pavlov and his famous dogs?
