What if the ultimate OS...

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Originally this was a response to this question ,but then I decided I wanted to hear everyones opinion/input about what i said about the ‘Ultimate OS’ ...which is where the rant eventually ended getting into.
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Vista is… bearable. I still prefer XP. In general if I’m working with a Windows user that isn’t ‘good’ at computers, I recommend them to stay with XP, there is no real reason to upgrade. Why change when you already know how to use the old ‘system’? and the old ‘system’ works?
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This is why I’m interested to see what happens with Windows 7. Many changes have been made, things have moved… again. The structure of the system is different. I’m afraid that they will loose many users simply because they don’t get and don’t want to learn the new system. They will resist the ‘change’ that statement is ironic when you think of what Obama’s slogan is…unrelated, sorry
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I think I too am falling into this category of people that might be scared to change from what I’m use to. XP works, I know how to use it, I just have a hard time justifying change. I bet many users are switching to mac computers simply because their OS’s seem more… consistent, which translates to familiarity, stability. We are still exploring this concept of an OS, a computing platform that is powerful yet manageable. The standards (Widows, Mac, Linux) are morphing to obtain this goal of the ‘perfect OS’. Both share ideas, both have great ideas, some have problems, some are efficient, some are flawed. It’s a discovery process.
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What if neither become THE OS. What if both become THE OS’s (as they are now). What if they merge? What if they both were great ideas as a discovery process, but a new one must rise to incorporate what we have learned from the other two while avoiding the problems that we found. What is the perfect OS? What will it look like? What will be the same, what will be different? Where will we go with this?