Looks like Microsoft may finally be building a good operating system
‘…Eliminating dynamic loading and in-process extensions…developing a failure model based on reliable transactions….decomposition of applications into services that can be partitioned across tiers….local parallelism that interacts through shared memory….cloud-based execution techniques….a platform stack and a programming model that can tolerate cancellation, intermittent connectivity and latency…built for task concurrency and parallel use of both local and distributed resources…’ - sounds great.
This article on Microsoft’s plans for post-Windows Operating system on the SDTimes Webpage describes a compelling operating system. Then again NT was a compelling operating system on paper while Dave Cutler was working on it and was then forced to compromise almost every compelling feature.
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I’ve just seen an interesting post by Scoble about the SDTimes article.
Scoble, an ex-Microsoft employee, pours scorn on the idea of Microsoft writing a new operating system instead saying it is some form of leverage of the .NET programme.