Bob I wrote:


Skybuck Flying wrote:
Yeah,

The idea is to store applications and settings inside a disk image
seperated from the operating system itself.

Therefore new computers can come with new operating systems.

And then simply the old application disk image will be transferred to
the new operating system and "installed" (= mounted) there.

Saving tremendous ammounts of time !

Bye,
Skybuck.

The ONLY applications that would would work in that scenario are the few
utilities that don't rely on registry entries to function. That probably
is something on the order of less than 1/10 of one percent of the
software out there. In other words, not going to work in any real
non-diagnostic situation.

Not really, you could have an application hive that stores all that and
gets loaded dynamically. Windows already has something similar with the
user entries.
The only real issue would be OS compatibility. You can't guarantee the
new OS can support the old API interfaces; and that the applications
could support the new OS items, such as file security, etc. This is
bound to cause problems eventually.

James