What is Microsoft's 'Polaris' project
0What is Microsoft's 'Polaris' project.
Last year, that elusive Microsoft sleuth "The Walking Cat" unearthed a new Microsoft codename: Polaris.
Since then, a number of us Microsoft watchers have been trying to piece together what this thing is and how it fits into Microsoft's vision for Windows.
Recently, Windows Central has taken a couple of updated stabs at explaining what Polaris seems to be. I'm ready to try to give this a shot, based on recent conversations with my sources.
As Microsoft historians know, Microsoft has been working to modularize/componentize Windows for years by undoing the dependenices buried in hairball that is Windows. When Microsoft revealed its "OneCore" vision/plan a couple of years ago, officials said that the different flavors of Windows all were running on the same core.