Singularity, Microsoft's new operating system

Microsoft Research has published the details of its new operating system under development, called Singularity, designed from the ground up and using C# as the implementation language. The emphasis is on stability rather than performance.

Two observations. First, it’s good that they care about operating system stability. There’s no denying that Microsoft’s operating systems are more stable than they used to be; they earned the bad reputation, but you can see a conscious effort to care about security and quality. The second observation is that the name is really bad. To me, at least, it brings a black hole to mind.