Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 17:06 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Microsoft showed its new 'Softgrid' technology today that allows apps to run as if they were inside a second copy of Windows. But unlike traditional virtualisation apps, there's no second Windows desktop getting in the way. For example, Microsoft showed Office 2003 and Office 2007 running side-by-side, even though they can't actually be installed on the same copy of Windows. Initially, the technology is for corporate users only, but it has huge obvious benefits for home users as well. First steps towards this?
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Build individual applications with their own given versions of the small libraries. This restricts big library compatibility testing to the few big libraries, and small library testing is done by the developer who packages his app with the libraries that he knows work.
That sounds vaguely like the approach taken by PC-BSD. It also seems to obviate the need for the libraries at all. It seems foolish to go to the effort of separating code into DLL files (or SO files) if only one instance is ever going to be loaded at a time. (Maybe that's what you meant by the large, standard OS files.)