‘…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.
I loved this picture on Snarf’d of grilled toast sandwich which miraculously seams to have the image of geek blogger Robert Scoble’s face on it (inset).