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Re:Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire a Marketer from Microsoft by rbanffy on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:37PM (#2020084)
> some of the biggest operating systems (...) have come out of Microsoft Research and Windows kernel development

Care to list them?

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Re:Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire a Marketer from Microsoft by Locke1689 on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:24PM (#2020192)
I can list some. The Xen paper was done between Cambridge and MSR Cambridge.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=502034.502053&coll...

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=233269.233330&coll...

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945445.945474&coll...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryad/ is fucking cool if you're familiar with MapReduce.

There are a handful of IPDPS papers I also know of but can't grab because I'm off campus and my VPN to Northwestern is acting wonky.

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Re:Why Your Startup Shouldn't Hire a Marketer from Microsoft by rbanffy on Saturday December 18, 2010 @05:16PM (#2020447)
Thank you. Those are very interesting reads. It's been a long time since I played with really cutting-edge OS concepts and virtualization has never been my main interest (I was into hardware during college).
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