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What do you want in your next operating system?
4 comments- IT TOPICS:Emerging Technology, Operating Systems, Security, Windows & Microsoft
I want a continuing focus on security features in my operating system. I'm monitoring the progress being made with Windows 7. Computerworld's article on Windows 7 is one of the best.
I'm excited that we developers will be some of the early folks to learn about Windows 7 features. But it's the other content in the article that intrigues me. The article clarifies that I feel confused. I'm confused by this operating system's development. Longhorn promises were made big and were made early in the process. By comparison, Windows 7 seems enigmatic.
And maybe that's the way it should be. Overpromising and underdelivering is a failing of most IT vendors. Vista feature rollbacks, sadly, made Walmarts frequent price rollbacks look tame.
If Microsoft were asking you for requirements, what features are on your list? I don't want to lose the security isolation in Vista. I am one of three people who like UAC. I also want greater compatibility with old applications. I was dismayed at the lack of Vista compatibility with applications as basic as Visual Studio. I want security and application compatibility. So how might this happen?
Read the article. It's good, strikingly good, and let me explain why. It hints at Microsoft virtualization features being put into the operating system. Done well, and you can run your favorite copy of Doom or Quake as a virtualized application, one that cannot break containment and impact other applications and operating systems, all being run in their memory segments.
Of course, that move requires big kernel work, with heavy emphasis on componentization. So let me repeat my question: what are you looking for in this next version of Windows? Let me raise another. How familiar are you with vitualization principles and how they might help you?
jT
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