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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. Small kernel, only for now by unity100 · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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