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Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch

Microsoft Research has developed a non-Windows OS for academic types to play with. The subliminal message from Microsoft: Folks, we'd love to start from scratch with an OS, but we just can't go there. That connection between Microsoft's research and actual company desires may be a bit...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Research, Singularity Effort, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-05

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Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?

Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?BillG is still BillG, so is MSFTi don't think billG has been involved any less than before. maybe a little less in details. but other people's decision only matter if it is not going different way with his.RE: Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the...

Tags: MSR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft ThinkWeek, Billg

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?No, seriouslyStrategies and visions are for those who need to get somewhere. Microsoft doesn't want to go somewhere with the desktop, they are [i]there[/i], now. They own the desktop, just as they own the browser and messaging spaces.The only effort required...

Tags: Desktops, desktop, MSFT, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-04-01

Is it worth the effort to provide many operating systems to students?

Is it worth the effort to provide many operating systems to students?AmenChris says:"This goes back to the point that has been raised repeatedly in this blog: teach the fundamentals of computing (whether from an end user or developer perspective, depending on the students) and it won't matter which OS (or...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?

News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...

Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-07

My Singularity wish list

My Singularity wish listWindows only? What a concept!Not ready to believe in Windows as a benefactor. Linux is infinitely more flexible and unless Windows can match Linux's many flavors (and be given FREE!, of course), I don't believe Windows will remain the only contender in the ring. Sun also has...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Singularity

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

Microsoft Singularity

I just read my colleague Mary Jo Foley's post Want a peek at a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft? and thought I'd add a few additional thoughts on Microsoft's research project called "Singularity." I was a bit amused by Microsoft's comments that Linux,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-05

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

Singularity Summit 2007: Open source Singularity

"If the singularity is in fact near, the fundamental tools of information, collaboration and access will be our best hope for making it happen in a way that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers -- in short, making it happen in a way that lets us be good ancestors.,"...

Tags: Software, Scenario, Open Source, System, Benefit, Google Earth, Technology, Tool, Democracy, Singularity Summit 2007, AR World, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Microsoft still has more OS tricks up its sleeve

Over the past couple of days, theres been much made of Gartner Groups prediction that Windows Vista will be "the last big release of Windows." Thats a pretty sweeping -- and vague -- prediction. How is Gartner defining "big"? And what will count as an "operating system release," going forward?...

Tags: operating system, Microsoft Corp., Corporate strategy, Windows Live, Windows server, Windows client, Windows Server Longhorn, Vista

Blog posts 2006-12-14

Microsoft announces Live Labs - and a call to action

I'm at the Microsoft Search Champs in Redmond and Gary William Flake, ex Chief Scientist at Overture and now a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, has announced a new initiative called Live Labs. The Internet is now a mirror of the physical world His...

Tags: Gary William Flake, Live Labs

Blog posts 2006-01-26

"Unix beats Windows" -Says Microsoft!

"Unix beats Windows" -Says Microsoft!More evidenceThat you cannot compare Windows and *nix side-by-side and yield meaningful results. It doesn't matter who is doing the comparison, there are enough core differences in the design and implementation of both systems that the majority of comparisons are meaningless.Singularity Kernel Looks InterestingI don't...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, Microsoft Windows, kernel, Singularity

Discussion threads 2005-11-08

SPARC: The black-eye of open standards

SPARC: The black-eye of open standardsUnified Desktop Architecture UDAI saw a demo of this a year or so back. Sun had a SPARC station running a custom version of Solaris with a few Cocoa apps from OS X running. It even had the Dock loaded.The idea was to...

Tags: Processors, open standard, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Sparc

Discussion threads 2005-06-08