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Re: [News] Gartner: Vista Last of its Kind, "Unsustainable" Monolithic Windows Forced to Change

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 26 August 2006 08:32 \__
>
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Windows Vista the last of its kind
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current,
>>>| monolithic form, according to Gartner.
>>>| 
>>>| Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to
>>>| migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through
>>>| hardware-supported virtualisation. "The current, integrated architecture
>>>| of Microsoft Windows is unsustainable - for enterprises and for
>>>| Microsoft," wrote Gartner analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and
>>>| David Mitchell Smith.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=6718
>>> 
>>> It'll take them a decade to build Singularity (a UNIX/Linux clone/ripoff).
>>> That's excellent news to Apple and Linux enthusiasts.
>
>
> *LOL* I've just shoved this article in Bill Hilf's face.
>
> Microsoft is very critical of this analysis. No doubt, it does it a lot of
> much-justified damage.

Linux is a monolithic kernel.

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