Say hello to Singularity

It was maybe a year ago, when I first hear about Microsoft's Singularity project. It is a research project at Microsoft that studies the possibility to build a new operating system that supports only managed code. The idea is that current operating systems require too much overhead on managed applications, such as those using .NET or Java. If the operating system would run managed code "natively", then such application could perform better. At the same time, many security vulnerabilities would be history, given that the OS itself would be flawless.

There's also a recent MSDN Magazine article that discussed Singluarity. It reminded me again of this project, since I had already forgotten about it. Nonetheless, it would be interesting to see what could come out of this project.