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I think Longhorn was in large where we have now finally got with Windows 8 and onwards (not 7). An OS with core apps written in .NET, an object oriented data ma
by jug 10y ago
I think Longhorn was in large where we have now finally got with Windows 8 and onwards (not 7). An OS with core apps written in .NET, an object oriented data management system in Powershell. PS unites e.g Windows Registry and common files under the same umbrella. Windows 10 also completes the vision of a shared OS for all appliances.
Unfprtunately I think it took MS too long to get here. Other vendors got to the home appliances part before them, which is mind boggling given the traction MS had once upon a time.
- pjmlp 10y agoI agree, just with the caveat that .NET returned back to its roots. The original implementation was based on COM, the idea to implement CLR instead came afterwards. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net-generics-research-project-history-the-msr-white-paper-from-mid-1999/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net... So, WinRT is nothing more than COM+ Runtime brought back to life, with some of the lessons learned in all those CLR years.