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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.

  2. Better than vista? by shish · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I touched Vista for the first time today, because a friend wanted help installing a printer, and my cries of "I know nothing about windows!" fell on deaf ears. It took me 3 minutes from power on to bluescreening, and 2:30 of that was the time it took to boot...

    Compared to the 30 seconds it takes my ubuntu box to boot, the "click 'add printer', click 'ok' because all the settings have been correctly auto-detected", and the not crashing once; vista really has a long way to go before it's ready for the desktop~

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