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http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9911470-56.html
So much for Vista I guess. Although it will be another 2 years until they get a majority of the bugs worked out.
Anyone heard what is big about this version?
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The point being that any "first class" app will have a some sort of guarantee that it can not do anything bad to your system. For example it will have a specific set of "capabilities" (your mail client may have write access to your mail folder, but it won't be able to fuck up your whole system - so sendmail like security bugs won't happen). Drivers will be no different, they will just be separate software processes like this, written in C# or something. If one of them crashes, the OS can just transparently restart it at no interruption to the user.
The kernel itself would be a few thousand lines of codes at most (not millions), including theorem-prover properties that get mechanically verified, and a certain amount of hand-proven code. The end result would be that you can guarantee that the kernel will never crash. You can offer any kind of monetary compensation in the event that it does, because you have proven mathematically that it cannot happen. Is there a market for guaranteed zero-downtime OSes? I think so. Plus the PR opportunity of claiming a stability advantage over every single competitor is great.
Not all apps are written in .Net, of course. So you'd use some sort of isolated hypervisor emulation for them. Hopefully the OS would launch simulatanously with .Net versions of your most common apps (web browser, email client, word processor, IM client etc.), and your system will pretty much never crash again. An individual app may do something wrong, but it won't affect anything else, and it won't compromise your system security.
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