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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: 0, Redundant

    OS X isn't linux based.

  2. Re:that sounds good but.. by jaxtherat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Uhm no, you are thinking of GNU is not Unix...

    Linux is not an backronym, but rather is meant to loosely mean 'Linus's Unix', in the tradition of putting an X on the end of anything Unix like.

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    http://www.zombieapocalypse.tv/