HP, can you just leave Vista and others alone?

And so the rumor goes that HP is developing their own operating system. BusinessWeek has reported that HP has built a team to code the software that would bypass features of Windows Vista. Aside from that group, it is reported that HP has a team which works on creating a new operating system. In an excerpt from BusinessWeek:

HP acknowledges the first effort. The company formed the “customer experience” group nine months ago and put at its helm Susie Wee, a former director in the company’s research labs. Her team is developing touchscreen technology and other software that allows users to circumvent Microsoft’s operating system to watch movies or view photos more easily than they can with Vista. “Our customers are looking for insanely simple technology where they don’t have to fight with the technology to get the task done,” says Phil McKinney, chief technology officer in HP’s PC division. After Vista was introduced last year, it drew criticism for slowing down computers

In a time that services are growing rapidly and client software usage shrinking, I don’t think HP wants to improve anything. I think they just want to join Apple, Linux and possibly Google on providing alternatives that would eventually kill Microsoft Windows. HP, can you just leave Microsoft and other small operating systems alone? Thanks!