MS developing a modular OS?

Details of Microsoft’s goal to mould Windows into a modular operating system to work across all manner of gadgets have surfaced, under the name Andromeda OS.
Workers at Redmond familiar with Microsoft’s internal projects spilled the information to Windows Central, and explained that Andromeda OS has the goal of making Windows more flexible so that it can run on devices not normally suited for an operating system that’s based on old and demanding code, architecture and features some 30-years-old.

Read more at link

Have we seen this before somewhere – a modular OS? ;-)

How do you feel about this?

How do you feel about this?

It will fail. While the idea is not bad per se, Microsoft is still clinging to the ghost of Windows… The problem is going to be the underlying architecture. It will be possible to slim it down, certainly, but a hulking behemoth is a hulking behemoth no matter what you call it.

And functions can be added or taken away from Andromeda OS to suit the system or device it’s required to run on,

Can you smell the sweet smell of “premium feature” here? ;-)

To call Windoze a “hulking behemoth” is an insult!

to honest to goodness hulking behemoths.

I think it’s funny that they selected the name of a famous novel/movie virus for their modular OS. I guess it’s because they’re going to replicate it throughout the gadgets-sphere.

It’s definitely named after the galaxy, because of the sheer size of MS products. Gigabytes for roughly similar functionality of a Linux version that fits in a few MB.
Hey, I’m using Windows 10 to type this. I’m not a fan of the OS, but some of my games don’t work in anything else, and ‘buntu is a bit of a wreck these days. I still use it too, but it’s getting harder to stop the cracks from showing.

It’s definitely named after the galaxy

Well…it would have been difficult for them to arrange to name it before the galaxy, certainly.

I’m using Windows 10 to type this.

Poor soul. (I have a Windoze 10 laptop, which I use when I’m away from home, and otherwise to run exactly one program, very occasionally – Microsoft ICE, for those very rare cases where Hugin (on the Mac) mysteriously fails to stitch a panoramic series of photographs. ICE worked on older Windozes, but all those machines are pushing up daisies.)