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Longhorn reputedly was attempted in C# and MS had to fall back to C for performance and reliability reasons.

That is not the case, as far as I know (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista).

MS have written at least one OS on top of the CLR -- Singularity. Very cool stuff, albeit a research system.



Ah, good citation. I hedged my statement for a reason. :-)

Singularity is indeed fascinating, but it does remain a research OS. I hope something like it finally comes to light in a future release.


I do too, but considering the herculean task that this would be, I doubt the Windows org would ever consider it.

WP7 might have been a good breeding ground for such technology, but even that never managed to shake off it's own legacy OS underpinnings.




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