Microsoft Singularity - Series I

I have been reading a lot about Microsoft Singularity, the nex-gen OS research platform and since I have not been updating very regularly lately, what better than Singularity to start with...

What has caught my fantasy in the Singularity Project is the amount of code that has been written in higher level languages, especially C#, breaking the age-old adage that 4th Gen and higher Languages are not meant to write OSes. Around 80% of the source code of the Singularity project has been written in C#. Actually, the Singularity is not an OS in itself, its a platform that allows you to code specifically tailored OSes with an eye into the future, giving emphasis on modularity and impregnability of process memory.

The 3 pillars on which Singularity, conceived in 2003, stands are - Software Isolated Processes (SIPs), Manifest-Based Programs (MBPs) and Contract-Based Channels.. There are many more features that show a radical change in the architecture of OSes that we should look forward to in the near future.

Watch this space for an in-depth analysis of the Singularity architecture.