Does Vista already have Windows 7s new kernel?
By Stuart J. Johnston For those waiting for a faster, better-performing version of Windows, you’ll have to wait at least nine months for Windows 7. But if you can’t wait, Vista Service Pack 1 may provide a peek into Microsoft’s plans to equip Windows 7 with a dramatically smaller, more agile operating-system kernel. The new kernel is meant to deliver the kind of performance boost that users have been demanding ever since Vista first shipped nearly two years ago. In fact, the new kernel may already be in Vista SP1. (An operating system’s kernel is a core piece of the system that manages the computer’s resources.) Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t saying whether Vista’s kernel has been updated. According to an analysis performed by Australian tech publication APC Magazine, Vista’s first service pack sports the same kernel as Windows Server 2008: version 6.0.6001. The original release of the Vista kernel was version 6.0.6000, APC said. Sharing a kernel wouldn’t be too much of a stretch, cons
By Stuart J. Johnston For those waiting for a faster, better-performing version of Windows, you’ll have to wait at least nine months for Windows 7. But if you can’t wait, Vista Service Pack 1 may provide a peek into Microsoft’s plans to equip Windows 7 with a dramatically smaller, more agile operating-system kernel. The new kernel is meant to deliver the kind of performance boost that users have been demanding ever since Vista first shipped nearly two years ago. In fact, the new kernel may already be in Vista SP1. (An operating system’s kernel is a core piece of the system that manages the computer’s resources.) Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t saying whether Vista’s kernel has been updated. According to an analysis performed by Australian tech publication APC Magazine, Vista’s first service pack sports the same kernel as Windows Server 2008: version 6.0.6001. The original release of the Vista kernel was version 6.0.6000, APC said. Sharing a kernel wouldn’t be too much of a stretch, cons
