On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:47:47 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:28:34 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?
command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076698&intsrc =hm_list

It's kind of interesting. I've seen Vista machines run fine and Vista
machines that run like over loaded 386s.

Hard to understand it.

IMO, that article is quite right. Besides the hypervisor, Windows 7 is
to be based on a minimal kernel, MinWin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7

The question is, will it be enough? I also find it quite humorous. If
you want to see what those great "innovators" in Redmond, will propose as
the latest and greatest in a year or two, look here, now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

Any software system that uses terms like paravirtualization,
hypercall, hypervisor, sandboxed guest system, is going to be too
complex for the average user because you just know that more terms
will be invented that make no sense and just confuse the issue.