[Coco] Microsoft files for patent on "modular operating system"

[tonym]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Date:  Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:50:19 -0600

>Another darn thing about this patent... are they trying to say nobody 
>can break their operating system software into PARTS?  That is 
>insane.  Everything that's anything today works in modular form so 
>you can upgrade, replace, patch, fix, alter, customize, etc.
>
>A non-modular system would be what?  A single stream of code, a 
>single program, that can't call on any other system parts?  This will 
>never go.  Ofcourse, I haven't read the details so I'm just tooting the horn.
>


Technically, isn't 99% of Windows, along with other OS's, more akin to "Operating Environment," with the "Operating System" being a very teeny-weeny portion of it?

Tony 

 
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