Microsoft's Vision For Future Operating Systems

Bender writes: "The Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research has a fascinating article that details what sorts of things they believe may be important in Operating Systems of the 21st century."

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ack

[Frizzled]

... so that individual computers, file systems, and networks become unimportant to most computations in the same way that processor registers, disk sectors, and physical pages are today.


so they want to turn their entire user-base into an application? (bear with me) ... MS must get sick and tired of "borg" references, but this appears a tad too close to the mark.

it seems the only way you could have this level of hands-off "use-ability" would be to have complete control of all aspects of the hardware and enviroments your software is running under ... (simple if everyone was using a microsoft computer and held a microsoft job).

this seems like a huge step in the wrong direction. if we move to a level of abstraction devoid of details, how can we possibly innovate and improve?

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