Who Is the Midori Idiot?
Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger and now FastCompany videographer, has got a strong opinion about rumored Microsoft operating system Midori.
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6.8.2008 Midori - Next operating system from Microsoft
Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server are not the only operating systems under development at Microsoft.
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30.6.2008 Microsofts Midori: Cairo revisited?
Microsoft’s post-Windows operating system, code-named “Midori,” elicited some interesting responses — and a few potential new clues over the past week.
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7.7.2008 Microsoft Midori, a Candidate for the Operating System to Kill Windows
Although speculations do exist pointing that Microsoft is in the "right direction" as far as the next releases of its proprietary operating system are concerned, the fact of the matter is that Windows 7 and Windows 8 will not diverge from the Windows path in the foreseeable future.
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8.7.2008 Microsoft Non-Windows Midori OS to Kill Vista and Windows 7
There is so much life left into Windows, and Microsoft is gearing up for the moment when it completely runs out of what is now its proprietary operating system.
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30.7.2008 Midori Will Not Kill Windows, Multiple Releases Coming, Beyond Windows 7
The death of the mammoth Windows operating system releases was proclaimed even before the availability of Windows Vista. With Windows 7, Microsoft managed to prove that Windows was still very much alive and kicking.
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9.8.2008 Non-Windows Microsoft OS Midori – "The Windows Killer"
Windows is one product that is not lacking in Nemesis candidates. From Apple's Mac OS X to the open source Linux, to RIA cloud-based operating systems, potential Microsoft Windows killers are advertised in a variety of scenarios incongruent with reality.
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26.8.2008 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008Microsoft taking a sip of Midori
Ina Fried: Yes, Microsoft is pursuing a different type of operating system, which goes by the name of Midori. And, no, it's not the next version of
Windows.
The Midori subject has gotten a great deal of attention in recent days, with the fires only fanned by the fact that
Microsoft has refused to say anything about Midori beyond confirming that it is an "incubation project" within the company. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley
noted its existence in her Microsoft 2.0 book, while more recently SDTimes
posted a bunch of details on Midori based on internal documents.
From
there, there has been plenty of speculation about what Midori is and isn't.
Here's what I've been able to confirm...
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05.08.2008Might Microsofts Midori be ˜Cairo revisited?
Mary Jo Foley: My post about
Microsoft’s post-Windows operating system, code-named
“Midori,” elicited some interesting responses and a few potential new clues over the past week.
To those of you
who sent me notes speculating/wondering whether Microsoft’s Midori might be a derivative of the
Midori Linux effort and/or the
Midori lightweight Web browser project, I’ll reiterate that I
don’t believe these other Midori projects have anything to do with Microsoft’s Midori.
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07.07.2008Macromedia Opens Incubation
'Labs'
Macromedia on Monday opened
the doors to a new incubation
site that hosts unfinished
technology and early software
releases. The goal of
Macromedia Labs is to involve
developers in the creation of
new products, enabling them to
provide feedback that can
shape the company's future
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18.10.2005Microsoft sees end of Windows era
Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Called Midori, the cut-down operating
system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. It is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to
a single PC. It is seen as Microsoft's answer to rivals' use of "virtualisation" as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day
computing.
Although Midori has been heard about before now, more details have now been published by Software Development Times after
viewing internal Microsoft documents describing the technology. Midori is believed to be under development because Windows is unlikely to be able to
cope with the pace of change in future technology and the way people use it.
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05.08.2008Microsoft's Midori to sandbox apps for increased security
Security is a watchword for Midori, the operating system that Microsoft is incubating in hopes of freeing itself from its legacy Windows software
architecture.
SD Times has viewed internal Microsoft documents that detail Midoris security proposition. The highlights include
memory safety and type safety, and a least-privileged mode. As well, hardware support may enable a secure boot mechanism and a remote chain of trust
on top of secure booting.
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05.08.2008Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori
June 30 is
the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies
of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times
opinion piece) to start looking ahead to what comes next after Windows.
That answer could be Softie Eric Rudder’s
mysterious “Midori” project.
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30.06.2008Microkernel expert Shapiro to join Microsoft Midori effort
Jonathan Shapiro, one of the chief developers of the BitC language and Coyotos operating system,
is joining Microsoft to work on Midori.
Shapiro announced via the BitC mailing list that he will be
joining Microsoft in August in a “fairly senior position.”
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07.04.2009Is the Microkernel Making a Slow Return to Microsoft?
The microkernel concept that was once theoretically cool, but impractical may now be a more reasonable real-world solution. With Microsoft working on
Windows 7 and reportedly Midori, have hardware performance improvements finally made the microkernel practical?
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06.08.2008Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed
Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle
challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.
SD Times has viewed internal
Microsoft documents that outline Midoris proposed design, which is Internet-centric and predicated on the prevalence of connected systems.
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29.07.2008Microsoft maps out migration from Windows
At the risk of undercutting one of its core product lines, Microsoft is carefully conceptualizing a way to move millions of users away from the
existing Windows codebase and onto Midori, a legacy-free operating system that it is currently incubating in its skunk works.
SD Times has viewed internal Microsoft documents that reveal the companys preference of an orderly replacement strategy rather than breaking
sharply with its past.
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31.07.2008Microsoft Live Labs launches politically focused social-media site
Microsoft's Live Labs - the Microsoft incubation lab that combines Microsoft researchers with MSN product managers - has launched a new technology
preview, just in time for the U.S. presidential election.
Live Labs released on October 9 “
Poltical Streams,” which the company is describing as a way for individuals to receive
“at a glance, a more complete picture of the information and opinions on the Web on a single page.”
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10.10.2008Microsoft Research Releases AutoCollage 2008
Today Microsoft Research has released a super-neat application that allows you to take a group of photos and easily create a collage within minutes -
called AutoCollage 2008 .
AutoCollage 2008 is the result of research out of
Microsoft Research Cambridge as well as research from other Microsoft Research Labs. The
AutoCollage 2008 release marks the first incubation released directly to consumers from Cambridge's Microsoft Research Lab.
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04.09.2008Live Labs kills Deepfish; suspends Volta downloads
What's going on over at
Microsoft Live Labs, the
incubation unit that mashed up Microsoft researchers and MSN team members to help speed the delivery of Microsoft innovations to market?
Microsoft has quietly killed off one of its touted Live Labs projects, Deepfish, as
my ZDNet blogging colleague Matthew Miller recently noted. And another of the Microsoft incubator’s projects the Volta toolkit is missing in
action.
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02.10.2008Microsoft looks to 'Echoes' to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services share
Microsoft is readying a new platform, code-named "Echoes," that it is hoping will get more telco carriers to offer their subscribers Windows Live
and other forthcoming Microsoft services.
Microsofts near-term goal with Echoes is to make the scaling and expediting of its
Windows Live mobile service deployments easier. The platform which got its start as an incubation under Israel Researchs Corporate Vice President
Moshe Lichtman is being spearheaded by Microsofts
Israeli Strategic Development Center.
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29.05.2008Microsoft's Ballmer outlines his seven big bets for 2009
Mary Jo Foley: On Tuesday during his hour-plus presentation (which I listened to via
a
Webcast), Ballmer outlined seven areas “where we invest serious money.” He told Wall Streeters that Microsoft planned to engage in
careful cash management; to maintain “right-size enterprise overhead”; and to put about three percent of its spending into research and
incubation projects in the coming year.
Ballmer emphasized that he believed “the economy will be relatively weak for a
relatively long period of time” and was adjusting his investment priorities to reflect this fact.
Ballmer’s list of
seven investment areas for the coming year...
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24.02.2009Microsoft, researchers release new operating system project: Barrelfish
You've likely heard of Microsoft's next-gen operating system projects
Midori and
Singularity, but earlier this month researchers released a prototype for another OS,
code-named
Barrelfish. Barrelfish is an OS written specifically for multicore environments. It hopes to
improve the performance of boxes with such chips by creating a network bus, if you will, between cores. Today such systems tend to share resources
like memory. As demand increases, performance of the box decreases as shared resources don't scale well. Barrelfish instead passes messages between
cores on its bus, and reportedly uses a database-like approach to keep track of the hardware available.
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