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Windows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel

Posted by kdawson on from the starting-over-is-hard-to-do dept.

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."

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  1. 3, 2, 1.... by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 0, Troll

    Start the Windows Vista and Windows Seven bashing!

  2. Ballmer sissy boy loves the flying eggs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sissy Ballmer cowers when a few eggs fly

    What a fucking chimp

    How arrogant he is to walk around smiling and cracking jokes while his company fucks poor countries out of taxpayer money

    What a piece of shit

    Remember, eggs are generally served for breakfast

    I wonder what's for lunch

  3. Rounds 1 through 40 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    OK, here we go...