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 Const-me on Monday January 29, 2018 @04:41PM (#16260863)

My 64 bit Windows can’t run 32 bit programs natively. WOW64 does quite a lot of work under the hood to make them run, it translates WinAPI, redirects file system and registry, etc. Works quite well in practice.

I expect something similar will happen with Win32 apps in that new Windows 10.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by rbanffy on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:45AM (#16264277)

I think the point here is to break with legacy. It's expensive to keep it, error prone and it creates a lot of security issues. By shifting part of the work to software vendors, Microsoft forces the market to move on to newer APIs.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by Const-me on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:57AM (#16264581)

That “legacy” i.e. backward compatibility is the major reason why people buy and use Windows. While indeed expensive to develop the platform, I think breaking it will be a disaster. See what happened with windows phones and tablets.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by pjmlp on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:39AM (#16288664)

Regular users only care about what is pre-installed with their hardware.

Hence why the only way Linux (the kernel) only got successful for consumers with either a browser OS or a Java OS on top of it.

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Re:MS to Give Windows 10 a ‘Modern’ Overhaul with Light Weig... by rbanffy on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:56AM (#16266253)

I still think the number one reason people buy Windows is that it's what comes with their computers. I don't see that changing.

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