After the Vista version, Windows will no longer exist

Analyst Gartner (USA) said that upcoming products of Microsoft next year will be the last embodiment of Windows in the old format. Then, the software company will be forced to convert "Windows" into a modular architecture, intertwined through hardware-assisted virtualization.

" The current unified architecture of Windows is unsustainable for both businesses and Microsoft, " said Gartner's three analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and David Mitchell Smith.

The problem is that the increasing complexity of this operating system is making it more difficult for businesses to implement upgrades, while also hindering Microssoft itself from releasing updates. periodic. This also limits Microsoft's efforts to promote customer companies to buy copyrights.

According to Gartner, the answer to the problem is virtualization - built right into Intel and AMD processors. This mechanism has become popular for x86 servers through VMware software. " Once Windows has a virtualization feature in its core, we believe the operating system development trend will shift from unified to distributed in the form of modules, " the analysis team said.

Virtualization is known as a method of operating multiple server systems on a single hardware platform.However, it can also be used to run individual operating system or application functions.Virtualization technology separates the system components from each other, making them more manageable.

Gartner believes that Microsoft will use virtualization to split the "guest" part of the Windows (client) into a service partition, which plays a role in controlling system functions such as management and security, and one or more than another partition for the application. A new architecture like this will allow Microsoft to make tremendous changes to Windows without worrying about cracking cohesion across the entire operating system. In addition, they are also able to allocate periodic upgrades and support compatibility more conveniently.

US analysts forecast a major upgrade for Vista by the end of 2008 or 2009, which adds virtualization as a single component called a hypervisor and a service partition.

Gartner said Microsoft 's effort to simplify the Windows development process in 2004 only aimed at rebuilding Windows into a collection of more than 50 layers.

Phan Khương