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October 23, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Microsoft To Slim Down Windows

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At an ACM presentation at the University of Illinois last weekend, Microsoft's Eric Traut revealed that its working on slimming down the next major release of Windows by starting from a bare-bones kernel known as "MinWin"and then only adding what's necessary. This is a good strategy for Microsoft. If Microsoft are the last people to admit that Windows has become bloated, at least now they're acting on it. Lets face it, they wouldn't have extended selling Windows XP past the original end of year deadline if Vista was selling that well. But don't expect Microsoft to commercialized MinWin or ship a major new Windows 7 release until 2010 at the soonest. (And in the past I've doubled Microsoft's OS schedules and still been off.)

The only question is if they have 200 people already working on this project, that seems like kind of a big team already. Remember, small teams and all that. You can view Traut's presentation as a WMV file here.

Posted by Zack Urlocker on October 23, 2007 12:30 PM

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