[mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"

[Robert Adkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Arbogast
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"
> 
> >
> >	You haven't been reading much about Windows "7". They 
> intend on making 
> >it considerably more modular. As I understand it, the OS is being 
> >designed to be quite tweakable and modularized specifically 
> to make it 
> >faster to put together as well as easier to tweak for 
> specific purposes.
> >
> >	I have a feeling that Vista was the end of the 
> Monolithic OS road for 
> >Microsoft. They learned their lesson, by ignoring prevailing 
> OS design 
> >theory for to long and appear to have had a change of design heart.
> >
> >	I would just like, in the meantime, for Linux to make 
> additional 
> >inroads and potentially grab enough of the market that 
> Microsoft will 
> >start considering to do something actually beneficial with 
> some of its 
> >newly modularized components.
> >
> >	I for one, would have absolutely no problem with using 
> Linux as my 
> >desktop, buying "DirectX for Linux" (For anywhere from $30 to $60 in 
> >order to play DirectX Games with no problem) and having the 
> option of 
> >using some other MS technologies, IF for some reason I 
> actually had a 
> >need/use for them.
> >
> >	-Rob
> >
> >  
> >
> Modular so they can keep using code from past versions ?  
> Remember the RPC flaw in XP ? 2 months before it was reported 
> publicly I was in Richmond talking with the product team 
> (developers and managers) directly about security. The said 
> to my fact the IP stack and the RPC code was all new in 
> XP....  when the exploit was reported, guess what ? 
> Some of the code for RPC in XP was the same all the way back 
> to NT 3.51
> 
> They have not had a clean sheet design with all new code in 
> more than 10 year. I doubt they'll change now.
> 
> -dave

	Going to a more modular model does not require that they build every
single element from the ground up. It does mean a good amount of rewriting
of elements to compartmentalize those elements.

	-Rob