Eric Traut talks Windows 7 and MinWin

Eric Traut talks (and demos) Windows 7 and MinWin at the University of Illinois

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Entertainment

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• Windows
• 7
• seven
• vienna
• microsoft
• minwin

[Zoiked]

I hope this is the start of a new less bloated Windows 7. :D

[HelloMarco]

I'd like to switch to Linux, but unfortunately it's totally unfeasible. Basically every application I use doesn't work in it (and the Linux alternatives are pathetic) and never will due to the community's refusal to set up and adhere to any kind of broad standardisation of the major distributions (due to nerd morons with no grasp of reality, such as Stallman, and their fanboys).

[snuhr]

thats what happens when naive public believes "honest" MS marketing :)

windows will never be less bloat ever again

[GavinRoskamp]

MinWin being the base of Windows 7. HA! Windows 7 ended up being just an optimized/patched Vista. MinWin my ass.

[joo5ty]

I'm I the only one who thinks the MinWin still needed a LONG time to boot up for such a small kernel as he called it?

[iHateDlls]

MinWin, hahahah, all you have to do is sell Windows 3.1 again dear Eric, only MS OS i'd ever use.

:D

He quoted allchin who said that Vista was a pig in this video btw didnt he?

[JGOETTLE]

The very first Windows was Windows 1.0, second was Windows 2.0, third Windows 3.0. Following Windows 3.0 was Windows NT which was code versioned as Windows 3.1. Windows 95, Windows 98, 98 SE and Windows Millennium each shipped as 4.0. Windows 2000 code was 5.0 and Windows XP was 5.1, Windows Vista is 6.0. So we see Windows 7 as our next logical significant release and 7th in the family of Windows release. But there using 6.1 for Windows 7 to ensure application compatibility.

[mdrumt]

25mb for that piece of dung! 40mb of memory! that is so lol

Google slitaz or DSL and see what they are doing with similar system resources and they include a gui!

This is riduculous! but hopefully still a step in the right direction.

[CCKsoldier]

I was asking a question.

That's how you gain knowledge, dipshit.

[Hershey]

no it's not. 10.4 and 10.5 are basically differentiated by subversions, as opposed to the parent version, which is 5. The relationship between 5 and 5.1 is different from the relationship between two subversions. Apples and oranges.

And to put it in context, Windows XP is in fact based on and built from Windows 2000; as such, makes sense that it's within the same parent version (5 to 5.1 as opposed to 6.0, which denotes a full milestone and a new version)

[edwpra]

i read that windows 7 is gonna have the same requeriments of vista 2gb ram 2ghz cpu (the real requeriments), so i don't see what's the advantage of this new kernel if this is true.

[malyka5]

Who is MS trying to fool here...??? They are sure going to lower the number of lines in it's kernel but all he did was show us the "KERNEL", not the OS... What makes the OS is all the applications that comes with it and there was none in this presentation.