Comments by "Scott Franco" (@scottfranco1962) on "The Slow Death of Windows" video.

  1. Microsoft could save themselves, eliminate a lot of their costs, and emulate the Mac/Apple model in less than a year by one simple step. Port their GUI on top of a Linux or BSD kernel. The result would still run windows programs, look like windows, remove a major cost item from Microsoft in one step, maintaining their own kernel and drivers. X windows, even Wayland, would be considered less high tech than the Windows GUI layer, and Windows would be as portable as Linux/BSD even if they keep the source code proprietary. Windows does not rely that much on special features of its NT kernel any more than X does. It pushes files, it runs tasking, it has a driver model. Linux even supports the NT filesystem. With a couple of API layers over Linux, they could park the majority of Windows GUI code over the kernel. The Windows GUI could take over the video subsystem the same way it does now.
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