Visual Studio toolkit will build bootable apps

The Cosmos open source OS "construction kit" is looking to create fast, small-footprint applications that are less dependent on hardware. In development since 2006, the kit is not yet ready for production work, though, as the 1.0 version isn't due until next year.
Cosmos executes code faster because it doesn't have the overhead of switching tasks at the CPU level. "It's actually a set of Legos for building OSes using .Net," said project co-founder Chad Hower, a former Microsoft developer evange