> I wonder if the more popular desktop OSes are ever going to change their monolithic architectures into something similar and adopt these ideas. Windows graph

> I wonder if the more popular desktop OSes are ever going to change their monolithic architectures into something similar and adopt these ideas. Windows graphics stack from Win7 (or maybe already Vista?) can recover from driver crashes. I experienced it a couple of times (VERY rarely though), and it worked. The screen blinked, all applications survived and I could just continue doing whatever I was doing. No need to reboot or even log out.