Reading TechCrunch to understand technology is like watching CNBC to better manage your investments. It doesn't work.<p>Windows NT is a microkernel that pretends to be Windows 95 and now pretends to be Linux.<p>Underlying both MacOS and iOS is a microkernel that pretends to be POSIX, MacOS, or IOS.<p>Getting the microkernel down to a nice clean base is the right thing to do for desktop, servers, and whatever else comes down the pipe.<p>Meanwhile, all the posers think that a "phone is a phone" and a "laptop is a laptop", "wires are ritually unclean", etc. and miss the point that the basic idea of computer science is that a computer is a computer, as proven practically by video game emulation.<p>The one thing you can be sure of is that Microsoft will zig and Microsoft will zag and if you invest your time in energy in Shiny7 from Microsoft you might find it is taken away because Microsoft thought Shiny6 (from some other vendor) was cooler or is chasing Shiny8.