By alashcraft
via blogs.zdnet.com
Published: Jul 08 2008 / 02:32
The recent buzz over Microsoft’s efforts to build a completely new OS from scratch has led to some wild speculation. The silliness reached its apex last weekend in the New York Times, where San Jose State University business professor Randall Stross argued that “[t]he best solution to the multiple woes of Windows is starting over. Completely. Now.” In a rambling essay filled with factual errors and mistaken assumptions, he mentions Microsoft’s Singularity research project and says “Microsoft should move its researchers into the heart of its systems development team” and begin turning that research project into a replacement for Windows.
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willcode4beer replied ago:
It seems to me that the best thing they could do is build a new OS and forget about backwards compatibility (even Apple has done it). They've learned so many lessons from all the versions of windows but, trying to be backwards compatible has really prevented them from being able to correct many of the mistakes.
Usually, maintaining backwards compatibility is good but, there come a time when you just have to cut the cord. Anyway, they could always do a wine port or something to run old stuff.
If they could dump the registry, drop dcom, replace DOS with a real shell, fix non-blocking IO, implement modern thread handling, and build a real security model they could really go far. Early releases will assure there is plenty of available software when released.
Their success may become the cause of the downfall.
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