From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:33:12 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>see if some parts could be left out of the OS and converted into
>separate apps,

   An active part of Vista development is that some kernel components have
been segmented so that there are no direct dependencies on other kernel
components.    I don't know how far they got with that however.

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