Man, I've been sold on that design concept since the mid '90s.
It's pretty amazing how much power old code and old designs have over us. I don't use Windows, so I can't comment on that but as far as I know every other OS still employs those designs which the BeOS developers identified as making things far more complicated than they should actually be.
To this day, I'm not sure that I've ever met anyone who could produce a credible explanation that, however complicated modern Operating Systems have become, they're as simple as they can be and any reduction in complication (this isn't really complexity) would certainly require a reduction in necessary features, usability, reliability, or security.
The only guys I even hear talking about anything even vaguely related are the Library OS/Rump Kernel/UniKernel crowds and they're focusing on applications running in Data Centers.
It's pretty amazing how much power old code and old designs have over us. I don't use Windows, so I can't comment on that but as far as I know every other OS still employs those designs which the BeOS developers identified as making things far more complicated than they should actually be.
To this day, I'm not sure that I've ever met anyone who could produce a credible explanation that, however complicated modern Operating Systems have become, they're as simple as they can be and any reduction in complication (this isn't really complexity) would certainly require a reduction in necessary features, usability, reliability, or security.
The only guys I even hear talking about anything even vaguely related are the Library OS/Rump Kernel/UniKernel crowds and they're focusing on applications running in Data Centers.