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- Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all
- Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after allGeee ......Sounds like the stole ... errr "emulated" a page right out of the *NIX playbook ....RE: Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after allMary Jo,After watching the video last week as well, my take away was that the current incarnation...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin IS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, kernel, Microsoft confirms MinWin, Microsoft Confirms
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
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- Reviewing Windows 7
- Reviewing Windows 7Please...Please Murph...Spare us your "review" of anything Microsoft related. You were the one that told us that Windows "doesn't use real threads", so please spare us from giving your uninformed opinion. It was worth less than $0.02.Please stick to OSes that are becoming more irrelevant with...
- Tags: Operating systems, WINDOWS USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-01-08
- Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7
- Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7VISTA tax"Over the course of the last two years, I've discarded or replaced a handful of devices that didn't work at all with Vista: several network cards, some storage adapters, a scanner, a TV tuner."Fantastic.RE: Six things Steve Ballmer won't tell...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, IT Organizations, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Netbooks, mini-notebooks, ultraportables and semantic fun with AMD
- Netbooks, mini-notebooks, ultraportables and semantic fun with AMDWhat really is the point of the netbook?The future is not the netbook, it's smartphones with bluetooth keyboards and smaller more powerful laptops like the Macbook Air but faster and longer life battery. Netbook are just the way that the notebook vendors can...
- Tags: Smart phones, Notebooks, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Netbook, netbook, mini-notebook, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-15
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSDMinWinMary, why do you insist on MinWin when he constantly makes it clear that it's not Windows 7? They will use some of the ideas from MinWin and apply them, but it is essentially going to be the improved Vista kernel. Something like...
- Tags: BIOS, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Inside Windows' core: A peek into Microsoft's COSD
- Jon DeVaan -- the "mystery man" behind Windows 7 -- is the Senior Vice President in charge of Microsoft's Core Operating System Division COSD. I had a chance to ask DeVaan some questions last week about how COSD works and about one of COSD's better-known if still largely misunderstood initiatives:...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Team, Microsoft Windows 7, Core Operating System Division, MinWin, MJF, Team Management, Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- News to know: E-voting security; Salesforce.com; NetSuite; SAP; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Security, Facebook, Larry Dignan, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., E-voting, Sales Force Management, Data Centers, Government, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all
- MinWin -- the core of the Windows operating system -- is, indeed, in Windows 7. It's just not part of it in the way many people including yours truly initially assumed. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, MinWin
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Windows: You say major; I say minor
- Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
- Scratch that. Windows Server 2008 R2 still livesWhaaa?!? Win7 != NT 7?If Windows 7 is not based off of NT kernel 7 then why call it 7 in the first place?WinNT = kernel 4Win2k = kernel 5WinXP = kernel 5.1WinVista = kernel 6Win7 = kernel 6.1?No way.If we remember the...
- Tags: Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, kernel, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows NT, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, server, Microsoft Windows Server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- News to know: Windows 7; Firefox 3.0; Yahoo; SOA; Nokia
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2 available from FTP servers ...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Camcorder, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Why MinWin speculation matters
- Why MinWin speculation mattersPresumably......Windows CE will continue to exist as a separate product, but future versions would use the MinWin kernel. I would find it hard to believe that MS would maintain multiple Windows kernels if they didn't have to.UNIX-like is more shrinkableBoth Linux and Mac OS X easily...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, iPhone 2, MinWin, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Why MinWin speculation matters
- MinWin has re-emerged as a source of debate since Microsoft last week released a few more details regarding Windows 7. Previous discussion of the "MinWin" kernel by engineers related to the Windows 7 team would have led one to believe that MinWin was a fancy new kernel that would be released with...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- News to know: NASA hack; Netbooks; Green IT
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Debunking yet another bogus malware study Dancho Danchev: Phoenix Mars Lander's mission site hacked Robin Harris: Mac Time Machine: backup for the rest of us? Christopher Dawson: Waiting for the right netbooks ...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NASA, Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?
- MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?re: MinWinI think the statement if accurate from "the anonymous Microsoft blogger claiming to be part of the team building Windows 7", is pretty clear and sounds like a reasonable explanation.I know, I know ........It's the next round of vapourware to...
- Tags: Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?
- Confusion over exactly what MinWin is -- Is it a concept? a new operating system kernel? a floor wax? a dessert topping?) -- and how/whether it will be part of Windows 7 is still rampant, a week after Microsoft "communicated" about Windows 7 via a Q&A with News.com. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable (again)
- Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable againI don't care about it. I stick with VistaI don't care about it. I stick with VistaRE: Windows 7: Now a late 2009 deliverable againThat will be nothing new, just think - another operating system delivered in beta status, with millions of people...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Well Let, Microsoft Windows 7, deliverable, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- What we do know about Windows 7
- What we do know about Windows 7Not 2010, It's sep 2009Windows 7 would definitely be released in 2009. Mostly Sep 2009as you guessed in previous postsWindows 7 will be more tightly integrated with Windows Mobile.Gee, there is a nonstarter.By the time Win7 comes out, WinMobile will have been Zunified and...
- Tags: Wiki, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, HA-HA-HA, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- What we do know about Windows 7
- Since Microsoft still isn't willing to talk -- or even comment on any of the information its own employees already have discussed publicly -- about Windows 7, I thought I'd make a list of the many things that are known already about Windows 7 (beyond the 2010 due date). ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- What kind of company would "Micro-hoo" be?
- What kind of company would "Micro-hoo" be?The Microsoft propaganda machine includes John Carroll.Not sure exactly what they are trying to communicate here. But, in general, they are trying to make the takeover seem less hostile, less aggressive, at the same time subtly bad-mouthing other MS competitors like Google.Really, a good...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
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