The project is codenamed CorePC and is designed to be a modular and customizable variant of Windows for Microsoft to leverage different form factors with. Not all Windows PCs need the full breadth of legacy Win32 app support, and CorePC will allow Microsoft to configure “editions” of Windows with varying levels of feature and app compatibility.
The big change with CorePC versus the current shipping version of Windows is that CorePC is state separated, just like Windows Core OS. State separation enables faster updates and a more secure platform via read-only partitions that are inaccessible to the user and third-party apps, just like on iPadOS or Android.
That’s definitely pretty cool and if they can pull it off, it will greatly improve the Windows update experience. That being said, Microsoft’s track record at modernising Windows hasn’t been exactly littered with success, and it often comes with major hiccups, problems, and upset users (Vista, Windows 8, Windows on ARM). I would love for them to succeed with this one, because in the end, it would benefit a lot of users.
This will come out right after WinFS.
I can already almost smell it.
Oops. Daylight savings ended here (on Sunday) and I think I accidentally turned my clocks back to 2017.
So in best case scenario and if everything goes well it will become a ChromeOS? And people using Windows will be happy with that? To me such strategy just makes very little sense.
I don’t think so. There’s always be a need for Windows Pro running win32 apps. And frankly, these days it feels like I’m having a better experience with my Windows 10 workstation than with my Ubuntu laptop.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Gnome so that’s not the issue. The issue is it’s buggy as hell which I don’t understand for an LTS that is now one year old…
Windows’ main problem is the architecture.
Shell32.dll still contains bitmaps made 40 years ago, it’s chock full of junk that Microsoft refuses to get rid of.
Microsoft should start from scratch, on an entirely new OS similar to Fuchsia.
This give me some trepidation “read-only partitions that are inaccessible to the user”. Is that just for updates or does that mean portions of the OS previously customizable will no longer be? Also, what happens when something goes wrong, can the user no longer repair problems as that is not uncommonly needed. If it’s something sys admins can adjust like making the partition writable then that should be fine.
They’ve been working on this shit for almost 15 years at this point.
First it was MinWin back in 2009.