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Windows 7 Will Be the Next Operating System from Microsoft

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.NET
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Operating Systems

Chris Flores, a Microsoft director on the Windows Client Communications Team, talks about the future of Windows.

Microsoft Research Releases Singularity RDK

Community
Architecture
Topics
Research,
Operating Systems,
Open Source,
Programming

On March 4th, the Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) was released as an open source project on CodePlex. The RDK is based on the Singularity Project from Microsoft Research by Galen Hunt, Jim Larus and others. The Project web site said that Singularity itself is primarily about "the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools."

Cosmos - An Option To Singularity

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.NET
Topics
Open Source,
Operating Systems

Just released to the public, Cosmos is an operating system implemented entirely in .NET compiled IL.

Ruby on Mac OS X Leopard with DTrace, XCode and Interface Builder support

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Ruby
Topics
Technology,
Dynamic Languages,
Operating Systems

The newly released Mac OS X Leopard ships with the Ruby 1.8.6 and various Ruby libraries and tools installed. Leopard also includes DTrace probes for profiling Ruby, XCode and Interface Builder support and more.

MinWin Core: 25MB on Disk and 100 Files

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.NET
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Operating Systems

The Microsoft MinWin core is 25MB in size on disk and contains 100 files total. This appears to be a major overhaul of Windows when contrasted with a minimal install of Windows Vista at 4GB on disk and 5000 files in size.