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speeding_snail · 4175 days ago · link · · parent · post: If Microsoft were to make Windows open source, what would you change?
The thing I would want to do is make it more modular. separate kernel, user interface, system utilities etc. This would make open up more possibilities to interchange kernels, interfaces and hardware support and eliminate strange situations like not being able to remove IE. Granted, UNIX already does this, but I think that it is preferable to having one giant monolithic OS. It might be that this is a bit of a too fundamental a change. In that case, I would want to change the user interface. Make sure that the user interface can be interchanged with different UI's. This would make the time in windows way more tolerable.