Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Jul 2008 12:27 UTC, submitted by danmassa7
Scott Finley, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has ported the Linux files system Ext2 to Microsoft's new research operating system Singularity. One of the most striking observations was the author's comments on Singularity's robustness. "Perhaps the best testament to Singularity's dependability was the extremely good system stability during the development of ext2... If the ext2 process terminated as the result of a failure, it only resulted in open channels closing. Other processes could (and did) recover gracefully." Finley's report details all his findings quite extensively.
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There was an article posted with the last two weeks (from a rumor site, so take it for what you will) that talked about Microsoft's post-"Windows 7" release. That article speculates that the next OS from Microsoft will not be based on Windows, and it won't be Singularity-based. However, the project is somehow related and will likely use many concepts from Singularity.
I think Singularity is going to become the new Plan9. :-)