I agree
Personally, I have always been one to shut off bloat wherever it may be. I liked the Win2K interface. It was practical and didn't use processor power and memory that I could use for something else. Windows XP was okay when you shut off the "Fisher Price" interface and animations. Vista had a horrible bloat, even with the Aero and animations turned off. Win7 was refined it a bit, it is still rediculous.
I'd still be using Win2K if all the software companies (M$ especially) didn't want me to upgrade and forced software to require the latest kernel. Imagine a 6-core i7 and 8 GB of RAM if Win2K came in 64-bit. As it is now, most brand-name vendors don't offer XP drivers for their new systems, and the 3rd party vendors have are close behind.
Now if Linux could run Windows apps natively, I'd switch to that comepletely. Even Ubuntu's new "Unity" interface is far more efficient than Windows 7's GUI and even Mac OSX, which is Unix based.
