The rise of the netbooks recently has taken some of the press by surprise, and to be honest, as a power-user I was also a bit skeptical. But in reality, any user who has helped someone else perform a task on a computer can see very quickly the appeal of a simple interface and a single-task based system.

Olpc, eepc, the netbook and several “toaster,” or internet-mostly systems that use baseline hardware and an open-source browser as a platform to access the internet have changed a computer from a software engine to a browser engine. It is a simple task-execution system, OS agnostic, mostly browser agnostic and is easy to configure. The gradient between netphones and desktops becomes grayer as more devices fill in, leading me too ask just one question:

When is the task-based interface going to truely make its way to windows? Soon please.