Five years after it began work on Singularity, an operating system research project focused on constructing dependable systems, Microsoft has released a research development kit (RDK) to the academic ...

It's been in development for nearly half a decade, but this year at Microsoft's R&D extravaganza TechFest, the company finally lifted the curtain on its research-oriented Singularity OS. Let's just be ...

At the annual Microsoft TechFest event—which began today at the company's headquarters in Redmond—Microsoft's senior vice president of research, Rich Rashid, announced that the source code of the ...

I've received a few emails over the last few days from people wanting to know whether I think that Microsoft's Singularity OS will eventually push Unix aside, first in academia and then in business.

Singularity is a Microsoft Research project to build a highly-dependable microkernel operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code. More than ...

In today’s IT Blogwatch, we look at Microsoft’s Singularity OS research project. Not to mention an open source LED puzzle-blocks game, which “brings the flexibility inherent in digital software to a ...

Interesting. While fellow blogger, Mary Jo Foley, notes that upcoming versions of Singularity will be designed to test technologies around multicore processing, it also seems as though an OS kernel ...

Over at Sylabs, Ian Lumb writes that Singularity containers can liberate EDA toolchains from specific operating systems, making this engineering process more sustainable over the long term. At many ...