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It looks like Windows 7 is more or less baked, so let's turn to... So let's turn to wild, blind, unsubstantiated and last but not least, wishful thinking and speculation about Windows 8...

- OS infrastructure refactoring, ct'd

- SQL Server infrastructure as a built-in component of the OS, deep down?

- Transition towards WinFS vision? ("Oslo" as a key component?)

- Repository for universal meta/data storage? (for files, for application files, application data, managed, unmanaged)

- Windows Search uses Repository?

- Projection of binary file metadata into the Repository? "ASN.1/M"

- Repository as the new platform for a legacy Transactional Registry Database?

- Transactional style everywhere? (managed, native?, "datapaint")

- The unmanaged vs managed battle (unification) - evolution of the CLR?

- Impact of the many-core processor paradigm, the 64 bit address space, and parallel I/O solid-state drives? (Impact on architechture, impact on CLR; well probably wohn't be that massive until Windows 9 or 10)

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

- Fully open source (under an OSI approved license)

You asked for "wishful thinking" Smiley

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to Bass

#Jan 9th @ 7:19 PM

That open source you refer to doesn't mean free, nor grants you any rights to the code or editing it. Open source software just means you can look at the code. A lot of people confuse that, so I'm not really sure where there's the big advantage. The performance improvements you could make to applications b knowing how the OS handles it when it's running isn't much of a deal anymore with nowadays computer systems and noone would really notice, except on a 486/586 (really slow, so to say) based system.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Oh c'mon... I haven't even really started beta testing and you are already on the next Windows. Tongue Out

custard55

Well I would like to think the next version of windows will be the big move to 64 Bit... of course that means a push for 64 bit drivers and software... so many by then most manufacturers would have stepped up!

I am saying this because PC manufactures like dell are making more and more 4GB of Ram PC's more cheaper.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to Dodo

#Jan 10th @ 6:25 AM

Open source by the open source definition. And yes I'd like to look at the code and maybe modify it.

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

nonono, Windows 7 is just the "Next" thing. The "Next next" thing will be Windows 7 SP1 and Vista SP3, followed by Singularity.

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to Bass

#Jan 10th @ 8:37 AM

Open source are two words, the definition is meaningless if the words already describe the matter more clearly than the 'definition'. An open source might not be protected in a way that would prevent modification or distribution of such, but it nowhere grants you any rights to do so.

'Open Source™' != 'open source'; //(quite ovious) Smiley

joechung

In reply to custard55

#Jan 10th @ 7:24 AM

They've already started. Windows Server 2008 R2 (which also shipped yesterday, surprised that nobody mentioned it) is a 64-bit only installation, I believe.

AndyC

In reply to joechung

#Jan 10th @ 1:14 PM

Yeah, but let's face it, nobody still buys 32-bit servers, whereas 32-bit desktops are prominent.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to Dodo

#Jan 10th @ 10:05 AM

Maybe, but I am talking about open source by the open source definition which indeed grants you the right to modify the source code. I clarified my first post.