Would Windows nevertheless be Windows if Microsoft yanked out the Win32 programming interface and User GDI graphics-device-interface layers and replaced them with .Net managed code?That;s not a purely hypothetical query; you can find a couple of skunkworks tasks indside Microsoft investigating that rather notion. And if the outcomes of their incubations pan out, the first fruits of their labors could turn into part of Windows,
Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key, maybe when Windows eight.I wrote a bit about these incubation tasks — codenamed “RedHawk” and “MinSafe” – back in July. Since that time, I;ve gotten a bit more information on these jobs and have summarized my findings in a new article I wrote for Redmond Developer News. (And just to be clear, Microsoft officials are nonetheless unwilling to talk to me about any of these incubation projects; I am hearing about them from various, unnamed but knowledgeable sources.)A quick refresher: RedHawk and MinSafe (two different code names for essentially the same thing) are assignments from Microsoft;s Developer Division and Windows unit, respectively. The pair are paving the way for Midori,
Windows 7 Ultimate Product Key, the distributed operating system project under development by Microsoft Senior VP of Technical Strategy Eric Rudder & Co. The word is that the Midori folks are looking to RedHawk as the best way for Midori to get a commercial back-end compiler and minimal runtime.According to my sources,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007, MinSafe is being led by Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich. RedHawk;s champion is Technical Fellow Patrick Dussud. Both assignments are working with Jon DeVaan, head of Microsoft;s Core Operating Systems Division.I heard from a single of my sources recently that it;s not coincidental that MinSafe and MinWin have similar names. MinWin — Microsoft;s project to create a slimmed-down Windows core — is related to MinSafe. If I were a betting woman, I;d guess that MinSafe is 1 piece of MinWin, and most likely,
Windows 7 64 Bit, the piece most likely to get commercialized very first.Microsoft;s goal with RedHawk, MinSafe and MinWin seems to be to locate a way to make Windows less bloated and more manageable, while creating as little disruption as possible for its developers and customers. Based on some of the new information on the RedHawk and MinSafe jobs,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, do you think Microsoft can pull this off?