12 Tenets to Promote Competition Announced

Over here, we just put out a press release about what we will do to allow for more competition within the Windows ecosystem. The words point to some potentially exciting developments. My curiosity is piqued in that I'd like to find out how much can be replaced from the OS. Dropping in a new browser or media player isn't too tough-- that problem has a well understood solution. I'm more curious about how much one can replace. I know that more than a few research types would like to be able to replace things like:

• The memory manager
• The device management subsystem
• The file system
• The registry

If anyone has more data that is publically available, it would be great to see it posted.