Vista graphics not in the kernel

It looks like MS is really taking steps to put out a decent peice of OS this time out.. Not to mention what this means to people that like modded gui's.. It should be extremely customizable.. 3rd party gui's maybe... We'll just have to see how this works out.. MS often has great ideas, but sometimes they don't implement them very well.. OK they often screw the pooch on the implementation side of things.. But hey, With the exception of that little relapse called WinME, they have been slowly getting better..
 
you can already have 3rd part GUI for windows

http://wiki.litestep.com/Index
but the best looking one
http://www.flyakiteosx.com/


My problem with this whole move the drivers to USER-space is are MS going to do the extra work?


Most BSOD are caused by dodgy drivers or failing hardware. Since a driver crash takes out the kernel causing a reboot to be needed, moving the driver to userspace wont cause the kernel to crash. However, this is ONLY ang good IF you can restart the display service.

In linux IF the displace crashed I would just ALT-F1 to a vertual console and go /etc/init.d/xdm restart to start the service. OR if it hard-lockedup I would SSH into it and do the same thing, thus not requiring a reboot

UNLESS Microsoft provides some form of virtual-console that is separate from the GUI, and infact non-dependant (ie GUI runs ontop of the SHELL, akin to Windows3.1) then this, for the end-user is going to be no different to a BSOD, all they will see is a corrupted display that will require a hard reset to fix, just like a BSOD

net result no benefit UNLESS MS introduces console virtual-consoles, then all they are doing are making linux, BADLY
 
Agreed. Good thing.

The drivers should be a standard service. If the service thread(s) are killed, the OS should automatically reload them.

Obviously, the drivers will need to be changed.
 
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