Windows 7 Kernel Sneak Peek
October 22, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Microsoft engineer Eric Traut gives us a sneak peek at the kernel of Windows 7. Note that this is just the kernel, without even a GUI — Windows 7 naked, so to speak. We don’t get to see much of her naked — just a bootup and a basic web server — but this OS-tan looks slimmer than her older sisters. After years of Microsoft giving the world bigger and slower bloatware, Traut wants to go in the opposite direction: streamlining the kernel.
Perhaps this streamlining is a reaction to the rise of Linux and web apps: when the Web is the platform, the OS must reposition itself as a small but solid stepping stone to that platform. Whether or not Microsoft can adapt, when it owes its entire fortune to the past primacy of the big ol’ bundling OS, remains to be seen.
