MinWin — the core of the Windows operating system — is, indeed, in Windows 7. It’s just not part of it in the way many people (including yours truly) initially assumed. Technical Fellow Mark ...

In the year that has passed since Microsoft released Windows Vista to business users, the operating system has gained a reputation in the channel as a bloated memory hog that many companies are ...

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Since the first public news of Windows 7's development back on October 2007, we've heard about a component of the operating system called MinWin -- a tantalizingly titled element that sounds like some ...

Not all the evolution represented by the move from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is visible on the surface of the operating system. In fact, one aspect of the next iteration of the Windows client which, ...

In terms of new releases on the Windows client front, Microsoft is cooking the first Service Pack for Windows Vista and the third and final Service Pack for Windows XP. Both refreshes are planned for ...

As Windows 2000 was being developed in the second half of the 1990s, Microsoft was firmly focused on building in as much functionality as possible, in a play to push Novell Netware aside and establish ...

There have, historically, been two competing models of operating systems development. There’s the UNIX mentality, of small pieces loosely joined. That is, you have a whole bunch of little, stand-alone ...

Urban legends are strange creatures. Even when they're exposed for what they are - tall tales seemingly "legitimized" through frequent retelling -- people continue to believe the lie. Case in point: ...

I’m a little fuzzy on what exactly MinWin really is, but from what I’ve read it seems to be the nucleus around which the Windows UI, APIs, and everything else revolve. It’s not exactly the kernel ...

This seems like a waste of time. Windows is a steaming pile, it's not worth the effort trying to trim it. MS should take a page from Apple's playbook and design a new OS from the ground up (New to ...