MinWin: a “small” preview of the Windows 7 kernel

MinwinWe’ve had thoughts on a lighter version of Windows for mobile computers in the past and I’d say there’s hope yet. Not with Vista, but beyond as in Windows 7. Long Zheng clipped an 8 minute section of video showing a Microsoft internal build of a basic Windows kernel, aptly named MinWin. Why is that a descriptive name? Well, the disk footprint is a scant 25 MB and it only uses 40 MB of memory to run. Before you get too excited, bear in mind this is a very stripped down code base and in the demo it was only running a basic web server. Still, if some effort is put into modular functionality that’s needed on low powered mobile devices along with a simple and effective user interface, this could be just the shot that Windows-based handheld computers need. The question is: will it be too late due to Linux-based MIDs?

(via Download Squad)

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