Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 26th Jul 2009 18:46 UTC
"Windows 7 will be more than just a better interface. Under-the-hood changes will allow chips from Intel, Nvidia, and Advanced Micro Devices to ratchet up Windows 7 performance above previous Microsoft operating systems. Microsoft on Wednesday said it has finalized the code for Windows 7, set to ship with new PCs starting October 22. Improvements will include how Windows handles multitasking, graphics acceleration, and solid-state drives."
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Member since:2006-07-14
Close. Vista wasn't supposed to be a rebuild of the internals, it just sorta happened to end up being that. Microsoft always changes its plans in midstream. I think the next Midori/singularity rewrite won't happen for another 10 years.
Apple needs to grease the internals of OS X soon. Maybe post snow leopard. The Unix underpinnings are starting to rust with age. They need ZFS && possibly FreeBSD's funky scheduler as well to keep up with the future direction of multicore/multithread CPU's.
Member since:2009-06-09
I think the next Midori/singularity rewrite won't happen for another 10 years.
Those microkernel OSes are still in experimental stage, forever and ever with horrible investment of time and energy.
Even though I'm a Linux user, I don't hate Microsoft. I only think Microsoft is doing a terrible management that offends so many consumers, but the many articles of technology made by Microsoft is still positive.
Member since:2005-07-06
Vista was that "re-engineered" version, and it was a fiasco. They had to do it and they did. They dropped interesting feature like winFS and the time machine like feature, but they did work hard. It was like KDE4.0, something to start with, but not the end of the road. OSX 10.6 will be more stable than those two, but mostly because they did not reinvent the wheel, they just looked at it to see what is obsolete, what is not perfect and what resources don't need to be present on some system.
Volume Shadow Copy Services (aka Previous Versions) was not dropped from Windows Vista.
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2006-06-12
Vista was that "re-engineered" version, and it was a fiasco. They had to do it and they did. They dropped interesting feature like winFS and the time machine like feature, but they did work hard. It was like KDE4.0, something to start with, but not the end of the road.
OSX 10.6 will be more stable than those two, but mostly because they did not reinvent the wheel, they just looked at it to see what is obsolete, what is not perfect and what resources don't need to be present on some system.