Microsoft is doing what Linux and Mac OS have been doing for years - a small and efficient kernel. The next Windows, code named Windows 7 spots a kernel called MinWin with a disc space of 25mb. This could spells the end of a bloated windows system. A much more reliable windows in the future?
“A lot of people think of Windows as this really large, bloated operating system, and that may be a fair characterization, I have to admit.”
“[So] we created what we call MinWin. It’s still bigger than I’d like it to be, but we’ve taken a shot at really stripping out all of the layers above and making sure that we had a clean architectural layer there.”
While you should draw no conclusions about how Windows 7 might actually run or what it will look like when it arrives in 2010 or so.
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