This is not the first time you read, but the future of Windows is not Windows. Since the reunification of systems with Windows XP (a single kernel for all ranges), NT systems have continued to evolve, giving Vista two years ago, and preparing Windows 7. The latter, although full of promise, is just one more step (albeit specific) in the evolution of Windows' traditional ', but a Microsoft patent foreshadows what may be the operating system the future for Redmond.
Midori, it still
We talked several times a project called Singularity. Fully managed and written almost entirely in C #, Singularity is a new vision by Microsoft that could be the operating system of the future. Unconnected with Windows and building on the foundations of modern development, it has long been a simple topic ... until it suddenly takes much more important.
Indeed, not only Singularity began to attract many people, but the system has become "viable" because another project, named Midori, was fired and placed in the incubator. At Microsoft, like many other publishers, incubation of a project always leads to a commercial product, although not necessarily as we imagine. Midori resumed Singularity, but the company following its progress with interest.
Windows system is simply environment?
Galen Hunt is the project manager of Singularity, while Eric Rudder directs the work on Midori. They are among the signatories of a patent describing a mechanism that many find barbaric while others will wonder what it really is: abstraction of an operating system from another operating system. Clearly, it comes to running a system on another system but beware: this is not virtualization.
No question of hyperviseur here: just as Windows has a layer of abstraction internal hardware, operating system future also possesses another layer allowing another system to access the hardware. But what interest? If Microsoft has huge push Midori on the market within the next few years: Windows becomes a simple interface for Midori, guarded by such obvious needs for compatibility
But why the publisher would seek such a solution? Because it would launch a system based on Midori without segmenting the market: a classic Windows, called 7, 8 or 9 (who knows?) And another, more modern, but incompatible. As long as Microsoft looks to be serious about the possibility of marketing Midori (or a derivative), there is always the problem of cohabitation. The solution would be to make the oldest a simple plug-in of the new, all without loss of performance (at least the stated aim).
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