Comment by poisonborz
11 days ago
It was an experiment to keep bright engineers busy with cool ideas to show off.Even back then they could have known that it is not a viable idea to make a tectonic platform switch with not much business arguments for it.
I don't think so. Feels like it was more about getting away from Linux and all the driver issues it entails.
It's a very long-term bet for sure.
I would love for a microkernel, capabilities OS to become standard. Windows and Linux have been bolting on security layers for decades because the modern threat model was barely a concern when they were originally created.
Google actually has the sway that it could drag the industry in that direction.