eWEEK: “‘Today, operating system installation is designed for the retail and end-user scenario,’ [Microsoft’s Mark] Myers explained. ‘The operating system is designed with (hardware) dependencies, which force (OEMs) to create lots of images. There can be thousands of images to maintain.’ All this is going to evolve, as of Longhorn, Myers said. ‘There are lots of changes coming in Longhorn, from an [OEM] set-up perspective,’ Myers said. ‘Every release of Longhorn will be built from the ground up, from a list of components. Longhorn in the future will be building blocks,’ Myers said. ‘It’s [like] Legos.'”