Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Feb 2008 20:16 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
"One of the 'big' features discussed in early speculation of Windows Vista SP1 was the kernel upgrade, which was supposed to bring the operating system into line with the Longhorn kernel used in Windows Server 2008. And yet with Vista SP1 going RTM, there hasn't been so much as a peep from Microsoft about the mooted kernel update. Has it happened? Well the answer is yes it has, and presumably the main reason for Microsoft's silence on the subject is that as they're keen to promote the improvements and enhancements to Vista, rather than placing emphasis on a kernel upgrade, which some people might see as a risk of newly-introduced instability."
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Member since:2006-05-09
No, I'm not new here, and I have no problem with publishing posts when a new kernel version has been released.
What I do not like is how the news about the MS kernel update are being told, something like: "MS is updating its kernel! What a shame! It indicates that the Vista kernel was buggy and crappy!"
OSNews is fully innocent in this issue, but I do not like how biased the news can be written.
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2007-02-07
"Why turning into big news something that all the OS developers do everytime? Why MS cannot do the same? "
You must be new here. Linux, *BSD and MacOS get the same treatment, it's not MS specific.
Linux 2.6.24 Released:
http://www.osnews.com/story/19216/Linux_2.6.24_Released
Linux Kernel 2.6.23 Released:
http://www.osnews.com/story/18751/Linux_Kernel_2.6.23_Released
Even 2.4,
Linux Kernel 2.4.35 Released:
http://www.osnews.com/story/18343/Linux_Kernel_2.4.35_Released