> Midori is dead, so it doesn't push any envelopes. S
"Dead"? how many research OS's aren't "dead"? The project being completed just means the active research has stopped. The whole point of making a research project like this is to find some interesting bits of knowledge that you can incorporate into other projects.
I'm sure this was already useful for .NET native, and will have bits (or at least lessons learned) for every ms. language and OS down the road.
> What "operating systems research" does Windows 10 actually represent?
I'm sure there are some fancy bits buried in it. The new JIT in .NET 4.6 is pretty fancy, for example (even though it isn't strictly OS research it's pretty tightly tied to the OS given how the universal app platform and store works). Win 10 is indeed mostly a polish release from Windows 8.1 (A few years ago it surely would have been called Windows 8.2 or Windows 8.1SP1). I think the naming was just part of the strategy to stop bumping major versions, like OS X.
"Dead"? how many research OS's aren't "dead"? The project being completed just means the active research has stopped. The whole point of making a research project like this is to find some interesting bits of knowledge that you can incorporate into other projects.
I'm sure this was already useful for .NET native, and will have bits (or at least lessons learned) for every ms. language and OS down the road.
> What "operating systems research" does Windows 10 actually represent?
I'm sure there are some fancy bits buried in it. The new JIT in .NET 4.6 is pretty fancy, for example (even though it isn't strictly OS research it's pretty tightly tied to the OS given how the universal app platform and store works). Win 10 is indeed mostly a polish release from Windows 8.1 (A few years ago it surely would have been called Windows 8.2 or Windows 8.1SP1). I think the naming was just part of the strategy to stop bumping major versions, like OS X.