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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Don't expect MinWin in Windows 7
- Don't expect MinWin in Windows 7I think I'd be ready to bet the farm on that ..."I'm willing to bet that the Windows 7 kernel will contain only minor changes from the one found in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1."I agree with you there Ed. As cool as...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Is MinWin really the new Windows 7 kernel?
- In my post about Windows 7 back in January ("Windows 7 = Vista Release 2"), I ended with a statement that deserves some follow-up: Those who are predicting that Windows 7 will include some radically stripped-down kernel (the so-called MinWin project) or a new file system are missing the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kernel, MinWin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Reading Windows tea leaves
- Though not exactly lighting up the blogosphere, speculations about future directions in the Windows platform have been rife. This article at APC compiled the various rumors together about Windows 7 (the successor to Vista...whatever name it ends up having) into a neat package, and this article on Ars Technica spoke...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Corp., MinWin, UI, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Stripped-down 'MinWin' kernel to be at the core of Windows 7 and more
- Stripped-down 'MinWin' kernel to be at the core of Windows 7 and moreWiat for the law suitI agree, it does sound like a Linux Kernal.Now all we have to do is wait for Microsoft to sue Linux for violating their minimum kernel patent.I've been expecting Microsoft to start using Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Kudo, MinWin, Linux, kernel, Bloatfarm, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-10-19
- Stripped-down 'MinWin' kernel to be at the core of Windows 7 and more
- Microsoft has created a stripped-down version of the Windows core, called MinWin, that will be at the heart of future Windows products, starting with Windows 7, the Windows client release due in 2010. While the Windows team has been working for years on reducing the dependencies in...
- Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, MinWin, Traut, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
Additional Resources
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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