Microsoft and Singularity

November 6, 2005 by admin  
Filed under Computers

Microsoft is building an operating system from the bottom up with no links to Windows. The development is code-named Singularity and uses a new Microsoft language called Sing#.

The Microsoft Research team recently published a 44-page technical report on the project [PDF link]. “Singularity is not Windows. Every line of code was written from scratch,” said Galen Hunt, a senior researcher spearheading Singularity. “We have an idea of how to minimize dependencies when writing an OS from scratch,” he said. “That’s a technology transfer idea.”

“Ultimately, all or parts of Singularity would most likely find a place in the embedded OS space, the server OS market, or both,” Hunt said.

[From Microsoft Watch]

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