[GrandMasterBirt]

I must agree.

The thing is that we don't want to put MS into a "give us features" release mode, so they will only ship new OS with new features, not with real under-the-hood improvements.

However that is the fundamental flaw in the MS model: User's don't give a shit. Why is it that my Windows 7 is already out-dated when Windows 8 is exactly the same??? Yet this is where MS makes it's money, and this is where it fails. OSX users are used to dropping a few dollars (30?) for their shiny macs to get a nice upgrade, which might not be so major.