It looks like Windows 7 is more or less baked, so let's turn to wild, blind, unsubstantiated and last but not least, wishful thinking and speculation about Windows 8...
- OS infrastructure refactoring, ct'd
- SQL Server infrastructure as a built-in component of the OS, deep down?
- Transition towards WinFS vision? ("Oslo" as a key component?)
- Repository for universal meta/data storage? (for files, for application files, application data, managed, unmanaged)
- Windows Search uses Repository?
- Projection of binary file metadata into the Repository? "ASN.1/M"
- Repository as the new platform for a legacy Transactional Registry Database?
- Transactional style everywhere? (managed, native?, "datapaint")
- The unmanaged vs managed battle (unification) - evolution of the CLR?
- Impact of the many-core processor paradigm, the 64 bit address space, and parallel I/O solid-state drives? (Impact on architechture, impact on CLR; well probably wohn't be that massive until Windows 9 or 10)
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