Basically I am frustrated

Why do companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google as well as all the others (IBM, HP, Dell, Sony, etc.) ... make such slow progress in getting their products to work the way we need them to work

They seem to focus on incremental product development (Microsoft), or just enough product to keep the sales revenue climbing (Apple) rather than any focus on how we are going to interact with the software/hardware.

Google has never really attacked the user interface since it established it's minimalist text-based approach.

That won't cut it any more.

I want visual interfaces that I can touch and do things with as well as organise my "electronic spaces" for work and play

Let's use this forum to describe how we want to do this.