I'm not sure if this is old news to you all. It's something that MS Research calls 'Singularity'.
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-135.pdf and a some interviews with the (re)inventors here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=68302 http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=141858
