____/ [H]omer on Friday 19 October 2007 13:15 : \____
> From the "lamest thing we ever did see" department...
>
> .----
> | Vole fiddles on while Rome burns
> |
> | MICROSOFT top boffin Eric Traut has emerged from his smoke
> | filled lab to talk about the future Windows 7 kernel. The people at
> | Vole have been a mite concerned that the Windows kernels are
> | getting a little bloated and have told Traut to come up with
> | something a little more efficient. A video of Traut talking about
> | his low footprint Windows kernel has found its way onto the world
> | wide wibble here. He has called it MinWin, which sounds a bit like
> | a character from the Goon Show. Although the information is
> | interesting enough we really liked the ASCII Windows logo as the
> | beast fires up....
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/19/smaller-footprint-windows
>
> Check out the vid here:
>
> http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071019/eric-talk-demo-windows-7-minwin/
>
> Traut proudly shows off something roughly equivalent to BusyBox, that
> "only" requires (brace yourself) ... 40MB. As Steveo Jobs might say
> "amazing!".
>
> And the quote that everyone took home and framed on their wall was:
>
> "A lot of people think of Windows as this really large, bloated
> operating system, and that's maybe a fair characterisation."
>
> Well Traut /is/ their Chief toner-monkey, so he aught to know.
>
> Other highlights include, a blast from the past with Microsoft "Bob",
> and the Windows 1.0 interface. Ah, it's clear now where Traut got his
> inspiration from for BusyBox ... ahem, I mean Windows 7. No, I mean
> MingMing, DingDing ... ah forget it.
It's hilarious. How about them finally incorporating a _first step_ in
functional CLIs by the time Server 2008 (aka Longhorn, aka next Vista-like
flop) is released? Also, they finally enable the server to run without a GUI,
but they stripped the top layer (working from the top to the bottom rather
than building it in a modular fashion from the ground upwards).
They keep insisting that they only go in this direction in order to please
*unix sysadmins.
It's science versus money-money-money MBAs, i.e. logic and patience versus
greed and deadlines.
No wonder Linux is winning (clearly so on the servers, mobile devices, and HPC)
and Microsoft resorts to SCO, Acacia, and other form of FUD from a sweaty
lizard.
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