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The Microsoft Singularity

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the dependability-would-be-nice dept.

jose parinas writes ""Microsoft Research has published the first details of a wholly new operating system under development called Singularity, designed new from the ground up, built on a new language and designed with emphasis on dependability instead of performance.""

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  1. Reliability he says... by Iriel · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "We're sorry -- you have reached this page because a web server error occurred."
    They're talking about reliability and yet it looks like we already sladotted the page.
    Somehow, this leaves me wanting more</toungeincheek>

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  2. Singulary = Black Hole? by electricsalmon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I find some irony in the name.... will this OS be a black hole that sucks everything (and everyone) into it?

  3. Service Unavailable by rbanffy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It seems http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ collapsed into a singularity due to overwhelming /. traffic...

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  4. Define "innovation" in that context. by khasim · · Score: 0, Redundant
    microsoft *has* been responsible for some real innovation, and *does* have a few products that work really well. hell, singularity might even be cool.
    Such as what, specifically?

    Microsoft is great at waiting until other people have done the development and then buying them out/cloning their work and polishing it. Microsoft is really great at marketing their products. They got people to stand in the rain, at midnight, to buy an OS.

    But "innovation"? I don't see that.