MS has always been copycat company they don't innovate, they look other peoples designs and use them or just buy out the companies that use X technology they obviously hit the wall after win7, as theres not much to add to it except re-patching it and do small tweaks to ease the UI so basically with no ideas as they acomplished their world of glass and wim the next step is to look what competition is doing (AGAIN) Linux had distros Apple got them they both have frequent major updates so why wouldn't "we" and there you go but to again mess in market (don't know better word, its like fat guy squeezing into tight masses - no offense fat people) so lets make touch OS, but we have no time for making NEW core OS well lets use AGAIN stupid IE components, change its looks, fullscreen it and call it "modern apps" as "nobody" will notice we run stupid crude mixture shell ontop of desktop OS and there you go