Windows 7 operating system slimming revealed

Eric Traut, one of the chief designers of the system, showed us the first Windows 7 kernel for the next generation operating system. First and foremost, we need to know that Windows 7 is just the code name for Microsoft's next-generation operating system, and an informal name. The first generation of Windows NT version is 3.1, followed by NT 4 and the well-known NT 4, Windows 2000 (NT 5), Windows XP (NT 5.1) and Windows Vista (NT 6). Vista after the next generation system code natural It became 7.

Traut demonstrated the Windows 7 kernel for the audience, the project codenamed Minwin. MinWin can be called a pure bare core, it has no graphical interface, and the demo is just a tiny Web server that Minwin displays as a simple HTML page, including Minwin's dynamic pages generated in the taskbar and toolbar. There are a total of 13 processes in the process, most of which are familiar to us, such as smss.exe, csrss.exe, svchost.exe and micro web server httpsrv.exe.

There is no GUI, MinWin boot screen consisting of ASCII characters:

It should be noted that MinWin is running under Virtual PC, so let us know about it. System resources consumed: 25MB of disk space, 40MB of memory. Under Virtual PC, the system started in only 20 seconds. In comparison, Vista is fully installed with a 14GB hard drive. As you can imagine, the shrinking kernel will allow us to see a more streamlined OS. Traut doesn't seem to be satisfied with the current progress, he hopes to make the kernel smaller.

Traut said that the streamlining of the kernel allows future MSs to have more market space, such as embedded products and smaller memory environments.

Microsoft has previously indicated that it will release Windows 7 in 2010, but more details about Windows 7 features are still unknown.