Singularity - Microsoft’s Other OS
Over at Microsoft Watch, Mary Jo Foley gives a run down on a project at Microsoft to develop a new operating system to answer the question: “What would a software platform look like if it was designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability?”
Microsoft Research has developed a prototype of a microkernel operating system, code-named ‘Singularity.’ Its most surprising feature: It has nothing to do with Windows.
Contrary to popular opinion, Windows isn’t the only operating system in which Microsoft is investing.
The Microsoft Research team has built from scratch a 300,000-line, microkernel-based operating system (OS) that has no roots in Windows.
What impact this has on the future of Windows is open to all sorts of wild hypothesizing, but the one thing for sure is, Microsoft aren’t putting all the eggs in one basket case.
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