Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 meets the GPL, MinWin, FUD
November 21st, 2009 | by Emil Protalinski
Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories:
Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down: Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers and embedded applications. That project, called "MinWin," has now started to bear fruit. Ars takes a look inside MinWin.
Windows 7 tool violates GPL; Microsoft will open source it: After pulling the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from its servers over reports that it might violate the GNU General Public License (GPL), Microsoft has decided to go open source with the tool.
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