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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 _merlin · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's called EFI boot. The Intel-based Macs are all EFI based - no legacy BIOS necessary.