Microsoft has applied for a patent for a distributed operating system that matches the description of one its researchers have been developing, known as Helios. (Thanks to ZDNet blogger @Manan for ...

and "is inspired by distributed operating systems such as LOCUS, Emerald and Quicksilver." The Helios researchers describe Helios and Barrelfish, another Microsoft Research OS project, as ...

A company that would disagree is Amazon, who just published a paper (PDF) detailing a distributed storage project called Dynamo. While Dynamo is not a complete operating system by itself ...

the much-anticipated microkernel-based distributed operating system that it has developed to power smartphones, laptops and smart home devices as the company attempts to reduce its reliance on ...