Microsoft had an amazing set of initiatives underway with transactional NTFS, transactional file system support in PowerShell, and transactional memory in C#. Transactions are a great future direction for operating systems, and are essential for future persistent memory efforts.
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I assume the NT transactional file system efforts stalled because of a lack of immediate developer demand, combined with the lost-decade mindset of dumbing down Windows so it could be turned into an iOS style walled garden.
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But persistent memory, and its roadmap to unify memory and file system constructs, changes the game completely. Transactions are an essential building block for persistence, and if you fail to deliver transactions, you miss the persistent memory revolution.
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