Vista's Graphics To Be Moved Out of the Kernel

Tiberius_Fel writes "TechWorld is running an article saying that Vista's graphics will not be in the kernel. The goal is obviously to improve reliability, alongside the plan to make most drivers run in user mode." From the article: "The shift of the UI into user mode also helps to make the UI hardware independent - and has already allowed Microsoft to release beta code of the UI to provide developers with early experience. IT also helps make it less vulnerable to kernel mode malware that could take the system down or steal data. In broader terms, this makes Windows far more like Linux and Unix - and even the MacOS - where the graphics subsystem is a separate component, rather than being hard-wired into the OS kernel."

Comments

YES a COPYCAT

[penguin-collective]

Yes, it was copycat even wa-a-a-y back in NT 3.5; X11 had this architecture in the mid 1980's.

Who needs the overhead...

[Savage-Rabbit]

... of a windowing GUI on a server?

When was the last time you met a Windows admin who was able to completely administrate a Windows server from the command line? I have met a few very competent Windows specialists who were deeply knowledgable of the Windows commandline interface, they do exist, but even these guys had tasks that they could only perform via some lame GUI even after installing a whole slew of Microsoft and third party add-on commandline utilities. The typical Windows admin is ususally lost without a GUI and some seem to be downright scared to death of the Windows commandline.