Summary based on "The incredible shrinking operating system"

Source:
http://www.infoworld.com

Summary:

The article basically discusses/mentions the shrinking of Operating systems and what effects/benefits it has. The author also gives a brief breakdown of the past methods while building these Operating Systems.

Why it maybe of interest:

I think that it’s an interesting article mostly because it would affect initially how people use computers in general. It also grasped my attention as well since some of the things mentioned were discussed briefly in class e.g. netbooks and the loading time of OS just to name a few.
Some aspects mentioned are well explained so that even someone not in the field may have a better understanding of what the general idea is. More importantly as students into this concentration it’s good to keep up with technology and knowing ‘what is hot and what’s not’ if to so put it.
While not really related, this information maybe useful as well as a customer, since new technology means older technology would become cheaper.