Ah, I did not know that. So, is WinRT a peer to Win32/Win64, or is it built atop Win32/Win64? I have heard that COM is bread and butter to the way Microsoft teams compose their systems, I should have known they would have based it on that. Maintaining the legacy through COM seems to encourage coupling in the design that would make it impossible to change out the OS underpinnings.
> I'd say NT especially is mostly on the right track in terms of being a modern kernel.
In the abstract, yes, NT is a vision of pure loveliness. NT 3.5 was super exciting when it came out, such a rock solid business OS (at the time)! Not sure what we got now in the concrete sense though - it's a real hodgepodge, new and old. I sense all the wise greybeards who could provide the vision have long since moved on.
I'm not suggesting Unix-like is a panacea, but it's on a better path than Windows as far as file systems go. There are surely optimizations and streamlining that a new design could showcase to blow away Unix/Linux/BSD. A new design from Microsoft would be refreshing, mainly because they have the cash and power to do it right and still offer their all-important backwards compatibility.
Ah, I did not know that. So, is WinRT a peer to Win32/Win64, or is it built atop Win32/Win64? I have heard that COM is bread and butter to the way Microsoft teams compose their systems, I should have known they would have based it on that. Maintaining the legacy through COM seems to encourage coupling in the design that would make it impossible to change out the OS underpinnings.
> I'd say NT especially is mostly on the right track in terms of being a modern kernel.
In the abstract, yes, NT is a vision of pure loveliness. NT 3.5 was super exciting when it came out, such a rock solid business OS (at the time)! Not sure what we got now in the concrete sense though - it's a real hodgepodge, new and old. I sense all the wise greybeards who could provide the vision have long since moved on.
I'm not suggesting Unix-like is a panacea, but it's on a better path than Windows as far as file systems go. There are surely optimizations and streamlining that a new design could showcase to blow away Unix/Linux/BSD. A new design from Microsoft would be refreshing, mainly because they have the cash and power to do it right and still offer their all-important backwards compatibility.