Why not drop the legacy support, But add an internal emulator that could run the legacy stuff. Kind of a Wine for Windows. It could internally run a version of XP so if you Really needed teh old programs you could run them but it wouldn't clunk down the new inovative stuff. Just my 2cents, I've long wished M$ would release a version of Windows that didn't do so much hand holding, for the people in the know who don't need all the extra padding. My parents for example NEED Windows to do Everything for them but I end up disabling a lot of the cushion stuff...