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Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel
An anonymous reader points us to an interview Microsoft's Windows 7 development chief, Steven Sinofsky, did with CNet. He reveals that Windows 7 will be a further evolution of Vista, and will lose the rumored MinWin kernel. "We're very clear that drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work really well on Windows 7; in fact, they'll work the same. We're going to not introduce additional compatibilities, particularly in the driver model. Windows Vista was about improving those things. We are going to build on the success and the strength of the Windows Server 2008 kernel, and that has all of this work that you've been talking about. The key there is that the kernel in Windows Server 08 is an evolution of the kernel in Windows Vista, and then Windows 7 will be a further evolution of that kernel as well."
"We're very clear that drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work really well on Windows 7; in fact, they'll work the same.
OK, maybe not. But they sure are struggling to get something new and better to market.
Vista is a flop not in a commercial sense of pounds, shillings and pence but in that it has damaged the brand.
And listen to this one... I travel to work on the tube in London. Quite often you see people reading tech books on the way in or out. Yesterday, for the first time ever there was someone (other than me, of course) reading a Linux tech book.
The revolution was, it is and it will be!
Has Netcraft confirmed it?
Ignore this signature. By order.
"The Windows database filesystem is something MS has been developing, announcing, and then killing off since the early 90s. It's sort of the Redmond equivalent of a phoenix, or maybe a Terminator."
Sounds more like the Redmond equivalent of Duke Nukem' Forever.
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