New Microsoft OS (not Vista)

BopNiblets

Since there's not a seperate OS board for this, I'll put it in the most related.

Microsoft are developing an entirely new Operating System from scratch that has nothing to do with Windows, it's called Singularity... (for now anyway)

http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/

Will it be better than Windows? Thoughts? Hopes? Unending sense of DOOM?

HomunQlus

That's quite something they wanna do with Code Name Singularity. I have never heard of this before. But it's nevertheless interesting.

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The only things I know of are:

Code Name Longhorn
Real name: Windows Vista
Release: November 2006

Longhorn Server -
Real name: Windows Server 2007
Release date unknown

Code Name Blackcomb -
Real name: Windows ??????
Release: Somewhere in 2011

Blackcomb Server -
Real name: Windows Server 2012 (to be confirmed)
Release: Probably somewhere in the 2nd half of 2012

seamus

Singularity seems to be an attempt to chip away at the UNIX stronghold of labs/universities.

TBH, the market wouldn't take another OS. It's no harm to make significant changes or upgrades to existing ones, but unless it works more-or-less the same as its predecessors, it simply can't take off. Linux still has effectively a niche standing in the desktop market, and it's really only building in the server market because the software is cheap and powerful, and there are now a lot of people able/qualified to admin it without paying them a fortune.

As it is, KDE and Gnome have been steadily becoming more and more like Windows, which will begin to grab more users, but if Linux remained command-line, or X Server wasn't bundled with distros by default, way fewer people would have bothered installing it.

yossarin

They seem to be looking at a c# VM per running program?
So its basicly a modular .Net OS

intersting though - good link.
i do believe that software frameworks have to get better then the J2EE and .NET - they are a good start but people these days want software quicker, safer and better, and all at once.

sceptre

HomunQlus wrote:

Real name: Windows Vista

When Weendows expee was released and named I assumed the marketing monkeys had taken over the building. There are certain quirks in the OS that make me think they also gave the marketroids the right to actually write some of the code as well but that's another rant for another day.

There's one thing about the name "Vista" that half intrigues me though (actually perhaps "intrigues" is a bit strong, think of it as some bloke with a half-open bottle of beer open with a two second "I wonder" before thinking "sod it, who cares"). Did they name it "Vista" just so that they could have the retail name of NT Version 6 starting with the latin number VI? Is this an injoke revealing the presence of at least one mutant marketroid with a sense of humour or reality? Or should I just go and buy that bottle of beer, wait two seconds and think "sod it, who cares"?

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.channel9.ca/c9park-vista.JPG:v: