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> come up with something new in operating system design Like CRLF newlines and "\" instead of "/" as path separator? Jokes aside, MS is not the place I look
by cies 6y ago
> come up with something new in operating system design
Like CRLF newlines and "\" instead of "/" as path separator?
Jokes aside, MS is not the place I look for "something new" in OS design.
- DrBazza 6y agoWhere would you look though? Who else writes operating systems? MS Research writes papers that are submitted to various journals (as does IBM, Intel, Google, all of whom have their own operating systems). An obvious example is the Midori project produced lots of novel research much of which has been used, even if the project itself was abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)
- withinboredom 6y ago> MS is not the place I look for "something new" in OS design. With Windows Phone, they did pioneer quite a bit. It was a phone first, and app running device second. Android and iOS feel like the phone part was a second-thought add-on in comparison. The Windows Phone did its best to make it so you could make a phone call or send a text, at the expense of email, running apps, etc. when the battery was low which took Android and iOS many years to implement. There were probably some other interesting things, but I don't remember them any more.
- mlvljr 6y agoUpvoting from my Nokia Lumia
- thunderbong 6y agoYour age is showing!! Look up on the history of those characters before you comment. There's a lot more there than superficial inconveniences.
- vips7L 6y agoEspecially considering that none of that really matters on windows anymore. It doesn't care about line endings or path separators.
- coldtea 6y ago>MS is not the place I look for "something new" in OS design You'd be wrong, though...