Chris Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS.A singular yet highly modular OS could give Microsoft the best of all possible worlds: OSes that can be highly customized for deployment but developed monolithically. One modular OS to rule them all, let's say. Mary Jo Foley is wagering that one of the big changes coming with Windows 7 is that it might be "available in pieces." That is to say, Windows 7 could be a modular OS. I'll go further. Windows 7 will be a modular OS, and we can already see the clues in Windows Vista, because it, too, is a fledgling modular OS. What we're talking about and why it matters (= software subscriptions), follows...http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...bscription.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Linux has been doing this since day one. Let's just hope the don't take the Linspire (Lindows) approach. We all know that didn't work out as planned...Maybe this is a move in the right direction for Microsoft.... time will tell.*cough* open source *cough* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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