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Ok - I have no doubt that, eventually, Windows will be 99% managed code. However - I don't think it's been done already.

Anyway, even if they wrapped existing classes, then it's not managed code.

Windows will never be 99% managed code. It can't be. The Framework isn't a platform by itself. There HAS to be a native layer (the core OS) underneath to interact with the hardware.

I'm sure that all of the applets that you actually see will eventually be converted to .NET in one way or another, but what you see is most definitely not all that's there. Graphics code, disk access code, boot code, kernel code, and anything else that interacts with the system hardware has to be native code... and that is the bulk of the system.

Going back to the earlier discussion, as far as being a ".NET OS" (whatever that's supposed to mean)... Windows either already is, or never will be, depending on your point of view. If you're holding your breath for the whole thing to be recoded for .NET (which, it seems, you are), you're going to be very disappointed, because it's never going to happen. But if changing the internals enough that the Framework is completely integrated into the system, then it's already done; and it's called Windows 2003.

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Nono, well, if you assume that features will be continually added... then eventually, it will be 99% managed code- because there will be 99 times more features than kernel ! (dreaming I know)

To me, .net OS is 50%+ managed code (not yet, but hopefully with LH!)

50% is still unlikely. Since all of the applets and programs the go with the OS aren't actually part of it (they're separate applications), I think 50% will be unrealistic for a very long time, if not forever.

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50% is still unlikely. Since all of the applets and programs the go with the OS aren't actually part of it (they're separate applications), I think 50% will be unrealistic for a very long time, if not forever.

You know what I mean... when the stuff off the installation CD (or DVD?) is 50% managed code.

I know the actual operating system base will probably never be 50% .NET.

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