[Gllug] Amazing

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 14:17 +0000, Peter Childs wrote:

> Does not make a lot of difference, Microsoft will never be able to do
> it on the terms that are needed for the $100 (or less) laptop.

Absolutely.

> If NT can be made to work on limited hardware just why does it not do
> that already? If they can make the necessary changes to NT then let
> them, 

MS can't do anything with the NT kernel.  It's just a (mostly)
undocumented binary blob.  Any attempts to change it cause massive
problems.  There are no real kernel programmers left at MS - they all
left when Ballmer took over.  Vista still uses the same NT kernel as Win
2000!

C.


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