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Fresh Air For Windows?

Posted by timothy on from the reinvention dept.

jmcbain writes "The NY Times has an opinion piece on how the next Windows could be designed (even through Microsoft has already laid plans for Windows 7). The author suggests 'A monolithic operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don't need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won't use.' He also brings up the example of Apple breaking ties with its legacy OS when OS X was built. Can Windows move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS and still keep legacy application support?"

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  2. Re:Short answer: no by siddesu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, indeed ;)

    Or they could, like, ditch all their work done so far, fork wine and make the new OS run on top of linux+wine, possibly off a sqlite-based WinFS ;)

    Then just port their platform libraries onto that, redo their visual tools as eclipse plugins -- and presto, you have best of both worlds.

    And fast ;)