Singularity: rethinking the software stack
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Systems work at Microsoft Research
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Five years ago, frustrated by the never-ending process of finding bugs that developers had cleverly hidden throughout our software, I started a new project with Galen Hunt to rethink what software might look like if it was written, from scratch, with the explicit intent of producing more robust and reliable software artifacts. The Singularity project [1] in Microsoft Research pursued several novel strategies to this end. It has successfully encouraged researchers and product groups to think beyond the straightjacket of time-tested software architectures, to consider new solutions that cross the bounds of academic disciplines such as programming languages, operating systems, and tools.