Eric Traut talks and demos Windows 7 and MinWin

I'm just going to post this news here for the people who don't know about this yet and discuss this. This has been copied from ";http://www.istartedsomething.com".

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"If I told you there was a public presentation and arguably demonstration of Windows 7, you probably wouldn’t believe me. Which is why I had to share this video with you.

Thanks to DigitalDud on Channel9 for noting, on October 13 last week, Microsoft’s distinguished engineer Eric Traut gave a presentation at the University of Illinois about Microsoft’s virtualization technology and also mentioned Windows 7 - the next version of Windows after Vista. And believe it or not it was on video. Whilst the presentation is not directly about Windows 7, it does contain a demonstration of MinWin - an internal project to build the most efficient Windows kernel which will in turn be used in Windows 7.

The whole presentation (WMV) goes for approximately 1 hour and includes a very deep look into hypervisors. I’ve clipped out the 8-minute segment which Eric focuses on Windows 7 specifically to make it easier to watch. Because Eric goes into a lot of detail as well as background information about what is presented, and because it’s 2AM, I won’t regurgitate it. All I’ll say is that if you think Windows at its core is bloated, think again."

Whole presentation video link: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/vi...-RP07-Traut.wmv

8-minute segment video (requires Adobe Flash Player): http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071019/...ndows-7-minwin/

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HOW BORING was that video. All these Windows Fanboys going on about "ooh I love the boot screen" I thought it looked rubbish. Its about time that microsoft actually bothered to rewrite their whole kernal anyway.

Still a boring video though . . .

Jj

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