Microsoft To Use Solaris 10 As The Windows 7 Core?
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This is no typo and yes, this is a Lockergnome exclusive - Windows 7 will indeed, be based on Solaris 10 while keeping the Windows Aero UI. This provides a much cleaner running core, while still providing the familiar feel that we see with Windows today. Where I remain a bit unclear is how in the heck users will be using their older software once Windows 7 goes live? Surely there will be some sort of compatibility layer for developers?
Based on what I have been told, Microsoft feels this is the best way to take on OS X and Linux, in one single move. Rather than beating down the competition with the old NT mindset, they are going to take the Solaris core and carefully add what will be needed to make it work for the typical end user. Due to the success of OS X and Ubuntu Linux, Sun had to give up their initial dreams and forge a partnership that they might not have even conceived of a few years earlier. But then again, you had to see this coming - Sun has been preparing for some time now.
So what does this mean to you? Will this change the face of IT? Based on what has been shared with me, yes and no. No from the aspect of the typical PC repair tech. They will still see a UAC type of security feature, software clean up jobs to remove the trial crap, nothing really changes there. But due to some new enhancements yet to be made public, Windows 7 will not only run better on older hardware, it will run with greater stability than was seen with XP and Vista. In short - this is the death of the blue screen. Obviously, being an operating system there can and will still be errors. Just none that are represented with a blue screen alert.
When will the news go public? It already has, although it was just a short time after I wrote this that I suspect others will begin sending articles out supporting this. Keep an eye out in the news, the truth is out there…
21 Comments
Gryph
April 1st, 2008
at 11:08pm
Wouldn’t it be nice? I heard yesterday that Virgle was considering using Windows 7 with the Solaris core as the default operating system for the 100 year Mars project.
marcel
April 2nd, 2008
at 12:35am
Wow Chris,
That’s what I call “breaking news”.
If Microsoft can pull this of…
Incredible!
Solaris has also ZSF, which is, by far, the best filesystem around.
3 times wow!
regards,
Marcel.
Thor667
April 2nd, 2008
at 4:19am
Source?
SC Willson
April 2nd, 2008
at 4:20am
I’ve been saying for 5 years that Microsoft was ultimately going to switch to a Linux or Linux-like core for its operating systems. It’s the only logical thing to do.
If true, this could make Windows nothing more than a GUI.
the oracle
April 2nd, 2008
at 5:20am
This is tremendously un-Microsoft-like. Using a Unix as the basis for a Windows version really means they have given up trying to re-invent the wheel.
The next round of Apple ads will no doubt include references to the fact that Apple saw the light first, as OS X is based on BSD, another Unix.
Blue screen or kernel panic, either way accidents happen - nothing man-made is perfect.
RC
April 2nd, 2008
at 5:55am
It was April 1st when you wrote this right??
Thor667
April 2nd, 2008
at 8:35am
Do you have any sources to back up what you have said?
late
April 2nd, 2008
at 9:01am
A little late delivery for an Aprils fool joke, haha though.
Tim
April 2nd, 2008
at 9:15am
I’ve been trying to find more info (and downloading solaris now!)
Being in IT and supporting several windows NT domains, I figure I best be started getting to know Solaris!?
Have you found any more sources or info? I’m terribly intrigued!
this actually makes me excited for Microsofts future, whereas 5 minutes ago I could care less what happended to windows.
Matt Hartley
April 2nd, 2008
at 11:44am
Yes, it was a last minute April Fools ploy - had to catch up with Pirillo as he had some doozies on his blog. :)
Matt Hartley
April 2nd, 2008
at 11:51am
I would point out that in year’s past however, Microsoft was quite hip to FreeBSD and other Unix options. Not so much these days, but Bill himself has mentioned that BSD was not so bad.
Bill Gates, April 2002:
“We say there should be an eco-system so something like VSB [BSD], which is a free form of UNIX, but it’s not - -doesn’t have this GPL with it, versus Linux which does — there’s a big contrast. A government can fund research work on BFP [BSD], UNIX, and still have commercial companies in their country start off around that type of work. You know, technology policies like biotech — you only — if your universities are doing work that can be commercialized, you will have IT jobs in your country. And if they are not, then fine, just say that farming is your thing, or whatever it is. All the taxes will be paid by those guys or something — I don’t know. And the farmers will go home at night and work on the source code. (Laughter.)”
Matt Hartley
April 2nd, 2008
at 11:53am
marcel: It’s “Matt”, not Chris. ;)
Matt Hartley
April 2nd, 2008
at 11:54am
Thor, Late and RC: Ah, you were paying attention. Nicely done, folks. :)
Ish
April 2nd, 2008
at 12:17pm
Wow! I never thought I’d see this.
Matt Hartley
April 2nd, 2008
at 4:01pm
Gryph: Nice. ;)
marcel
April 3rd, 2008
at 1:14am
Sorry Matt (not Chris!),
You got me with this one. Nice!
It was to good to be true.
Tim
April 3rd, 2008
at 10:39am
I’m sooo sad….
Hitting my mailbox on the 2nd was cruel!!! :)
Well… here’s to hoping!
Frank Schnyder
April 3rd, 2008
at 4:08pm
What tipped me off was the phrase “Lockergnome Exclusive.”
Matt Hartley
April 3rd, 2008
at 4:55pm
Frank: Ouch, but true enough these days. There are still occasions when we do get these. :)
JC
September 19th, 2008
at 8:04pm
Uh… are you sure this is real? There is no source cited and it is now over 5 months since this blog entry, yet it is the only such article on the internet. This news does not seem to appear anywhere else — which is strange considering how newsworthy it would have been if it was real.
JC
September 19th, 2008
at 8:04pm
Oh I get it. Damn you! Got me good. :)