Microsoft: Yesterday's Technology, Tomorrow.

On 13-Dec-05, at 8:26 AM, LiteStar numnums wrote:

> Let's see, first there was the Cyclone clone (Vault C), now there  
> is a Plan9-ish/EROS-ish kernel...
> Before all of this was "Active Directory" (Kerberos/LDAP)...
> The 'research' seems to be focused upon many things already  
> released into the wild &
> brining them to the point of being 'Microsoft' products...
>  -- Stefan
>
> On 12/13/05, Sergey Zhilkin <szhilkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Microsoft reinventing the wheels since 1980 :)
> Any sources of Sing ?
> Inferno IS better :) and also OpenSource :)
>
> On 12/13/05, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is old news to you all. It's something
> > that MS Research calls 'Singularity'.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2005-135.pdf
> >
> > and a some interviews with the (re)inventors here:
> >
> > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=68302
> > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=141858
> >
> >
>
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>
> -- 
> Nietzsche's first step is to accept what he knows. Atheism for him  
> goes without saying and is "contructive and
> radical". Nietzsche's supreme vocation, so he says, is to provoke a  
> kind of crisis and a final decision about the
> problem of atheism. The world continues on its course at random and  
> there is nothing final about it. Thus God
> is useless, since He wants nothing in particular. If he wanted  
> something -- and here we recognize the traditional
> forumlation of the problem of evil -- He would have to assume  
> responsiblity for "a sum total of pain and inconsistency
> which would debase the entire value of being born."
> -- Albert Camus, L'Homme révolté