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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Massimo Perga, Snohomish, WA (US);
Michael S. Bernstein, Seattle, WA (US);
Philippe A. Joubert, Paris, FR;
Dragos C. Sambotin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for implementing booting from an operating system ('OS') subset. In various embodiments, an OS management system deploys an OS image to a device, the OS image corresponding to a fully functional OS that is configured to manage hardware and software resources of a computing system on which the fully functional OS is installed. The fully functional OS is partitioned into a plurality of OS subsets corresponding to a plurality of functionalities that the fully functional OS is capable of implementing when the plurality of OS subsets has been initialized. The OS management system receives a user selection indicating selection of a first set of OS subsets among the plurality of OS subsets, and initializes the first set of OS subsets without initializing other OS subsets among the plurality of OS subsets, based on the user selection.