They’ll try to fit a square block into a round hole no matter which hammer they use.

– It’s still DRM riddled, which, of course means, there’s no security.
– Not compatible with existing major windows apps.
– Like vista, it requires major hardware upgrades.

Ballmer himself said it was going to be based on vista. All they were working on was the interface and a few other things.

Did some work on a laptop for a fellow employee, i.e. eliminate crapware, turn off unused services, etc. While the machine was idle it consumed 768mb RAM (that’s without doing anything).