eWeek reports that Microsoft is developing a new feature for Windows Vista, called the Restart Manager, that will allow parts of the Operating System to be updated without requiring the entire PC to reboot.
“If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does, and that happens without a reboot,” he said.
“If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was,” Allchin said.
Source: eWeek
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