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To: QwikSand who wrote (11659)	3/27/2006 3:58:29 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 19790

There are many kinds of virtual machines. Win32 apps on WinXP run inside VMs... :-) The current Xen virtualisation that comes with Linux today is basically a modified Linux kernel, that maps vital function calls into the main kernel. This way, you can run several Linux kernels on top of one Linux kernel, and sell things like unixshell.com at a low price with high performance. I wasn't necessarily talking about having a separate kernel for Win32 - but it does make sense to say that old software has to load the old API implementation. It hurts performance but reduces R&D. Commercial software for Linux often works this way, because it links in a lot of libraries statically or supplies them separately. I agree with your opinion on hardware - but this also demonstrates how interconnected marketing and software development is. If they would speed up R&D on this one, it would mean less hardware on the compatiblity list at release time. Microsoft R&D is about market position, not about innovation. That's why it's so hard to innovate on Windows.

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