That is HILARIOUS! msux must have been trying to emulate Linux for years. Shows their utter lack of talent. Linux did this years ago.
In reality, there is very little different in the Linuxes of today, from the Unixes of the early 1980s. There are some underlying re-workings of how certain processes work, but these are essentially invisible to the user. The "getting easier to use" has little, if anything to do with the operating system itself, and everything to do with the interface software that runs on top of the operating system. That interface software however is not the OS, and the OS isn't the interface: If I sat you down in front of a pair of computers - one a modern Linux box with the most recent Debian, running only the command-line, and the other one of my Sun workstations running SunOS (a Berkeley flavor of Unix) from the 1980s, you'd be hard-pressed to tell which was which. Likewise, if I installed your favorite Linux desktop interface on the Sun, you'd have a difficult time telling that it wasn't running modern Linux under the hood.
MS - even MS - could have implemented Linux-like features and controllability in Windows years ago, if they had had any interest in doing so. The limitation isn't "for lack of trying or ability", it's for lack of wanting to provide those capabilities to their users.
To understand the MS mindset and the "difficulty" they have in implementing different features, you have to understand that MS hates their users. MS's core premise is that their users are stupid, and bad, and that they need to be led along by their baser instincts with trinkets and candy, and carefully controlled to make sure that they don't do something bad (to MS - who gives a flip if they hurt themselves or other users?).
You may think this is hyperbole, but if you look at MS decisions through this lens,
all of their decisions make perfect sense.
For example: One of the side-projects in my lab is development of a hardware device that looks like a toy to children, but that provides diagnostic information to a clinician so that they can monitor treatment progress. It's for kids, say 2 to 7 years old.
It turns out that Microsoft has developed a similar product. We're working on a publication on our device, so we're studying their product and reading quite a lot of their literature on it.
ALL of their literature and promotional material on their product, is about all of the special features they've implemented in their device, to keep the kids from cheating. 2 to 7 year old kids. With neuromuscular disorders that keep them in wheel-chairs. And MS's primary concern is whether they cheat while playing a game on a toy.
Microsoft hates their users.
