I wouldn't expect it in a 'free market' but really, this was their stated goal since they did the full stop refocus on security a few years ago. The articles at the time of Vista development were obvious they were doing a full audit and refactoring of windows core kernel and api's to kill or move cruft. A lot of which went into Windows 7 but the engineering blogs at the time also pointed out how they had even bigger modularity plans then too.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Carl Houseman <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, good news but don't think for a moment they did this out of the > goodness of their heart. It's all about running on tablets where CPUs are > slower and RAM is less. Windows must compete in the tablet market or > suffer > a slow lingering death... > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:04 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev preview video > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > [a bunch of stuff] > > Wow. Thanks for that, very informative! It does sound intriguing. > I'm especially heartened by the "smaller memory footprint" and "faster > boot" pieces. For the first time in, I think, forever, with Win 7 and > (if this holds) 8, Microsoft is trending towards improving > performance. Good news. > > -- Ben > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
