First Details of Windows 7 Emerge

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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Small kernel, only for now

[unity100]

Its to be inflated with drm crap later. 2 years of Riaa lobbying should be able to get it to 5 Gb ram requirement level. Of course, it will need a cluster of 2 pcs for cpu power - for the new "On Live Demand DRM®" feature.

The Best Way to Minimize Window's Footprint

[sjaguar]

is to not use it.

Re:that sounds good but..

[crontabminusell]

"!=" is just a CompSci bastardization of the mathematical symbol that looks like an equals sign with a line through it (≠ doesn't get interpreted properly here for some reason), which means that the expression on the left does not represent the same value as the expression on the right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inequation

What it really would be

[SnarfQuest]

Ok, need smaller kernel. Grab a copy of Linux. Nobody will know because we don't let them see the souce code anyway. We'll do something stupid to hide all the boot messages behind a scroll bar.

Next, graphical system. Swipe X.Open. Nobody will know because we don't let them see the souce code anyway.

Now, we need a gui interface. Either gneme or kde will work for that since they both want to look exactly like Windows anyway. Just a couple of tweaks to the graphics to change the command button to "start", and nobody will know because we don't let them see the souce code anyway.

Now, we need windows compatibility. Wine. What more needs to be said. ....