MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weight Polaris Windows Core

Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by dragonwriter on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:34PM (#16259539)

> Microsoft says they are working to merge all the shell differences into a single project (CShell; composable shell), and the point of getting to a clean core (the "Polaris" codename in this article)

The clean core is Windows Core OS; Polaris is the desktop-specific composer on top of CShell and Windows Core OS and is also used in this article as the name of a UWP-only Windows edition incorporating the Core OS/CShell/Polaris-composer stack.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by WorldMaker on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:40PM (#16259580)

Do you have a source for your specifics? From the linked article I assumed that Polaris was just the new codename for the next big phase of Windows Core OS/OneCore/etc work and the article was mistaken or presuming much about a Core/CShell-only edition release plan.

It makes sense that there would be a codename for the desktop-composer on top of CShell, and that would be a far better explanation of things than the article here.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by dragonwriter on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:43PM (#16259611)

Here's an article which discusses the strategy in some more detail, explicitly identifying Polaris as the composer (but then also seeming to use it as the name for a desktop spin of Windows with Polaris in the stack):

https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-core-polaris

This Windows Central article actually seems to be the source for most of the other recent coverage, so it may be the most complete piece out there.

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