Talking about the operating system batlles such as *NIX Family, DOS, Windows will never end. Open source and GPL enthusiasm realize that Windows Family operating system is their competitor. But Microsoft has prepared its newest prototype operating system with name: Windows 7 or MinWin in their internal projects.

Why MinWin? Why Windows 7? We know that almost all Microsoft Windows operating system use large storage, more RAM, better hardware, than the old one. But Microsoft realize them and want to make a next-generation operating system killer. Eric Traut of Microsoft present MinWin at ACM conference at University of Illinois, US, into a virtual machine with just 40 MB and when try to boot the OS, voila…. It was just use about 33 MB. For comparative, Vista User will need about 4 GB disk space and 5,000 files. But this MinWin is using 100 files and 25 MB disk space.

This future OS is predicted to be released on 2010.

You can also watching Traut’s presentation with this link:
http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/video/UIUC-ACM-RP07-Traut.wmv

Source:

http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2007/10/
microsoft-shows-off-leaner-minwin.html

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/10/23/windows-7-minwin-new-
microsoft-os-to-have-less-system-bloat/