http:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/605136\/microsoft-planning-a-future-without-windows<\/p>\n
A glimpse into the future. We currently have a full O\/S on dedicated hardware. Virtualised O\/S platforms finally make the benefits of the micro-kernel concept achievable. In other words, a small footprint hypervisor\/kernel with guest systems above it.<\/p>\n
Currently we consider these guests to be full Windows clients. In future they will be smaller, more agile, purpose-specific lumps of code. Some locally hosted, some sourced from remote servers. All either available, limited or full featured based on the hardware and connectivity available.<\/p>\n
Give it ten years and we’ll all be saying “I used to carry a laptop around with me all the time” and laugh. At ourselves.<\/p>\n
Footnote: (Strictly speaking micro-kernels<\/a> and virtualisation are totally different concepts but the end result at the macro level is the same if a microkernel is used as a hypervisor – look it up).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/605136\/microsoft-planning-a-future-without-windows A glimpse into the future. We currently have a full O\/S on dedicated hardware. Virtualised O\/S platforms finally make … More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,77,78],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}