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All About Microsoft posted a news story that Microsoft has applied for a patent for its Helios distributed operating system



The three inventors listed on the patent application are all among those leading the Helios project.

Like a few other Microsoft operating system projects, Helios is based on the Microsoft Singularity operating system. Singularity is a non-Windows-based microkernel developed by Microsoft Researchers, including Galen Hunt, who is one of the inventors listed on the patent application.
  Microsoft seeks a patent for its Helios distributed operating system