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Windows 8 to Include Software Management System? |
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| Mon, April 20 2009 | 12:03PM | PermaLink |
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In the Release Candidate for Windows 7 you'll notice the "Windows
Features" section, where you can turn features on and off, has grown
substantially. As with previous versions of Windows, if a feature is
not selected, it is not available for use. This means the files
(binaries and data) are not loaded by the operating system (for
security-conscious customers) and not available to users on the
computer. These same files are staged so that the features can easily
be added back to the running OS without additional media. I think this
is a great move by Microsoft and it shows that they are moving more
towards how open source Operating Systems work. Linux distributions
for example come with some pre-installed applications and users are
able to add or remove as they wish - allowing them to completely alter
what is on the system down all the way down to the kernel. Of course,
I don't expect to see Microsoft move to this granular of an approach
to software management but I do see them moving more towards a
"Package System" like in Linux.
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