Min Win via Shipping Seven

“Shipping Seven” is a name that was first associated with a blog supposedly by a Microsoft programmer working on Windows 7. While choosing a name for our Windows 7 blog we decided upon this not to rip off the original blog, but because the name has become associated with the general Windows 7 development process.

I have no reason to doubt that the anonymous author of Shipping Seven isn’t a Microsoft employee, although he certainly doesn’t offer up any sensitive information. In fact wether he is an insider or simply a very well informed tech reader his contributions are interesting and informative regardless.

He just today updated the blog for the first time in a couple months with a response to the Slashdot posting entitled “Windows 7 Won’t Have Compact “MinWin” Kernel”

Calm down.

MinWin is not some magical new kernel. It is Windows with every single feature stripped out - It is the base ingredient of any version of Windows. (I forget the exact size. But it is pretty tiny - small enough for embedded stuff.)

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