Microsoft's researchers are working on yet another operating-system research project which can trace its roots to the company's Singularity project. This new operating system, known as Helios, is a ...

It's been more than a year since I last wrote about Microsoft's skunkworks "Midori" operating system project. But a new blog series from one of the project's participants rekindled my interest in the ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...