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Midori is dead, so it doesn't push any envelopes. So the dude is reduced to essentially maintenance work on a 20 year old unstable pile of garbage. What "operat

by melted 11y ago

Midori is dead, so it doesn't push any envelopes. So the dude is reduced to essentially maintenance work on a 20 year old unstable pile of garbage. What "operating systems research" does Windows 10 actually represent? It's essentially Win 8 with a slightly tweaked UI and Cortana.

alkonaut 11y ago
> Midori is dead, so it doesn't push any envelopes. S "Dead"? how many research OS's aren't "dead"? The project being completed just means the active research has stopped. The whole point of making a research project like this is to find some interesting bits of knowledge that you can incorporate into other projects. I'm sure this was already useful for .NET native, and will have bits (or at least lessons learned) for every ms. language and OS down the road. > What "operating systems research" does Windows 10 actually represent? I'm sure there are some fancy bits buried in it. The new JIT in .NET 4.6 is pretty fancy, for example (even though it isn't strictly OS research it's pretty tightly tied to the OS given how the universal app platform and store works). Win 10 is indeed mostly a polish release from Windows 8.1 (A few years ago it surely would have been called Windows 8.2 or Windows 8.1SP1). I think the naming was just part of the strategy to stop bumping major versions, like OS X.
- melted 11y ago
  That's sort of the whole point. You can research all you want but UNIX-like OSs will completely preclude your research from actually making a dent in the real world. So the only way you can make long term progress today is by doing your research on Linux or some other free OS. There's a ton of money being poured into it. If you come up with faster, more efficient, more secure ways of doing things, you can pretty much guarantee it will be in demand. If you, on the other hand, want to engage in intellectual masturbation for half a decade and not produce anything of value, sure Microsoft is a pretty good place for that. >> JIT is pretty fancy JIT has outlived its usefulness. Name one reason why binaries shouldn't be compiled into native code once, when you install them.

by melted 11y ago

alkonaut 11y ago

> Midori is dead, so it doesn't push any envelopes. S "Dead"? how many research OS's aren't "dead"? The project being completed just means the active research has stopped. The whole point of making a research project like this is to find some interesting bits of knowledge that you can incorporate into other projects. I'm sure this was already useful for .NET native, and will have bits (or at least lessons learned) for every ms. language and OS down the road. > What "operating systems research" does Windows 10 actually represent? I'm sure there are some fancy bits buried in it. The new JIT in .NET 4.6 is pretty fancy, for example (even though it isn't strictly OS research it's pretty tightly tied to the OS given how the universal app platform and store works). Win 10 is indeed mostly a polish release from Windows 8.1 (A few years ago it surely would have been called Windows 8.2 or Windows 8.1SP1). I think the naming was just part of the strategy to stop bumping major versions, like OS X.

melted 11y ago
That's sort of the whole point. You can research all you want but UNIX-like OSs will completely preclude your research from actually making a dent in the real world. So the only way you can make long term progress today is by doing your research on Linux or some other free OS. There's a ton of money being poured into it. If you come up with faster, more efficient, more secure ways of doing things, you can pretty much guarantee it will be in demand. If you, on the other hand, want to engage in intellectual masturbation for half a decade and not produce anything of value, sure Microsoft is a pretty good place for that. >> JIT is pretty fancy JIT has outlived its usefulness. Name one reason why binaries shouldn't be compiled into native code once, when you install them.