All About Microsoft posted a news story that “Redhawk” seems to be part of the larger Windows 8 package.

Way back in 2008 — a year before Windows 7 was released to manufacturing — I blogged about ‘Redhawk.’ My tipsters at the time said Redhawk was focused on the creation of a new managed-code execution environment that would be more lightweight and more appealing to developers who have been put off by the perceived overhead of the current Common Language Runtime (CLR) at the heart of the .Net Framework.

Back then, I heard that some of the Redhawk deliverables (specifically around the driver model) potentially could be incorporated into Windows 8.

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