New Microsoft operating system
In one of those interesting coincidences, no sooner had I written about how Microsoft should give us a new operating system than news of progress in that direction came out. Mary Jo Foley reports:
Microsoft has created a stripped-down version of the Windows core, called MinWin, that will be at the heart of future Windows products, starting with Windows 7, the Windows client release due in 2010.
While the Windows team has been working for years on reducing the dependencies in Windows which have made the operating system increasingly bloated and difficult to maintain and upgrade, it’s only been recently that the team has been able to create a separate, usuable new core.
Whether this new core will be used as a basis to create what I hope for, a simple consumer system, is another story. At least it makes such a system possible. If Windows can be embedded in small devices why can’t we have something like an Internet appliance? It wouldn’t even need much software since software like office suites could be Web-based.
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