Microsoft is preparing to launch a new OS, which mainly targets heterogeneous multiprocessing platforms. Will it succeed Windows? Read on for more.

Microsoft is already beyond the skies with its well accepted Windows OS. Now, it is preparing to launch a new operating system called Helios. Microsoft understood the fact that computing environments are no longer homogeneous Programmable devices. Hence, Helios OS is being specially designed for heterogeneous multiprocessing platforms, and has been built by modifying the Singularity RDK [22] to support remote message passing, and affinity.

Helios features a simplified task writing, deployment and tuning of applications, and an inter-process communication that spans two different programmable devices, which would function no differently than IPC on a single device. Hope you are aware of the satellite kernels, which form the basic primitive for managing programmable devices by efficiently exporting a single OS abstraction across different programmable devices, have been introduced in Helios. Moreover, Helios unveils a pellucid access to I/O services such as file systems. Though many Microsoft OS such as Midori, Barrelfish, and Singularity are in the line-up, there are chances for Helios to succeed Windows. As of now, we can't judge anything as the above mentioned operating systems are just in primitive stages. Let's wait and watch until it is officially released.

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