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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My guess based on past experience, is they will take the good kernel design from singularity....
Then bolt the horrendous windows gui and heaps of legacy code not only on top but throughout the kernel, turning it into yet another bloated over complicated mess saddled with heaps of crap legacy code and bad design decisions.
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2006-02-05
my guess is 9 years till a v1, then another 6-7 until it fully replaces windows (if we use NT for an example of an MS OS shift)
Google "Project Midori"