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First Details of Windows 7 Emerge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scantilly-clad-screenshots dept.

Some small but significant details of the next major release of Windows have emerged via a presentation at the University of Illinois by Microsoft engineer Eric Traut. His presentation focuses on an internal project called "MinWin," designed to optimize the Windows kernel to a minimum footprint, and for which will be the basis for the Windows 7 kernel.

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  1. Re:that sounds good but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    This is just a red herring astroturf intended to direct discussion away from Microsoft's shortcomings.

    Completely offtopic and should be modded to oblivion.

  2. Re:Rinse, Repeat by 2ms · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And doing so as if Vista was even competitive with the first version of OS X from 6 years ago.

  3. Re:Lesson in MS Counting by trifish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    that was only a PORTION of the OS

    You finally agreed with me.... Good boy...

    Are you an idiot? I didn't agree with you. You stated that Windows 9x was BASED ON MS-DOS. That is utter nonsense. The system only has portions that allow legacy code to run. Otherwise it is a completely new kernel.