I'd like to see a modular kernel. Hell, BSoD/GPFs are the reason I stopped using that shit. Maybe a nice free win32 kernel will arrise (after they release APIs, another thing that hopefully will happend), and a free shell, (hopefully a port of gnome).

and then, I like to make it a unix clone, yeah. hmmm... if only linux could run win32 executables...

I still think Bill G. wedgies would be best.

"Netscape would be allowed to set up Communicator to do everything the 'integrated' Internet Explorer did."

This is will be very difficult to do. Application writers manage to find and take advantage of every implementation quirk in a library.

Many applications rely on IE libraries as they exist today. Eudora uses MSHTML for editing and displayin HTML mail. Quicken uses the browser component. Many applications use the lower level HTTP client stuff.

Swapping out the implementation on these applications will be a very large task because the new implemetnation will need to implement the quirks of the original.

It's a shame that the idiots at Netscape did not understand the importance of providing the browser as a set of modules in the first place. I bet many applications would ship with Navigator components if Netscape had provided them. Oh well.