That’s my 2 cents.

Since computers are being given almost the same uses since the Internet is mainstream (except for multimedia, which now occupies a more prominent position in end-user computing) . How would further processor performance add to the end-user overall computing experience in 2012 or beyond? Is it all about enhancing the ability to handle multimedia files? Handle ground-breaking new devices? Does Microsoft envision something else to pursue the research you’re working on?

And a personal question I’m interested in, since I’m a college student: To get a job as good as yours, and participate ins such advanced research positions how can youth begin? Any advice you can give to aspiring professionals?

Thank you very much.

Because I feel like every new release of NT adds some bugfixes, UI slight changes, minor user features, and bloat, but no deep innovation, except maybe some great security ideas in Vista. NT series is mature, and is a great OS, but now is the time to move forward and try a new deep rewrite.

For those who want to see a new Windows that would get apart from the old WIMP paradigm and make better support for natural user interfaces.
For those who want to see a new Windows that would get rid of those old DOS and NT4 features and instead make use of code translation techniques on old programs (a well-known technique used in software virtualisation : same weight on the hard drive, but waaaay smaller and snappier kernel).
And for those who would like to see a new Windows that would be able to update itself without any need to reboot, even when there are kernel updates or whatever you may think is really important. I’ve made some work on this on my own mini-OS projects and it looks that this may be technically feasible, but requires some deep kernel rewrite.

So… Time for a revolution ?

Any plan from Intel to extend IA architecture from 64 bits to 128 bits instructions ?

Windows Server 2018 (Windows NT Datacenter Edition may support that