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…