Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7
The incredibly tight veil of secrecy around Windows 7 is about to lift, at least a little.
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15.8.2008 Introducing Windows 7, Codename Translucency, Milestone Sinofsky
Introducing... Windows 7, codename Translucency, Milestone Sinofsky... After a diluvian leak of Windows 7 information, from intimate details to screenshots and videos, Microsoft has finally managed to talk Windows 7.
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28.1.2008 Steven Sinofsky named President of Windows division
Microsoft today released a press statement stating that Steven Sinofsky has been named President of the Windows division. He now assumes responsibility of the Windows business unit including both the engineering and marketing functions for Windows, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer.
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8.7.2009 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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5.8.2008Might 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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07.07.2008Microsoft 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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05.08.2008Steven Sinofsky on Windows 7 and netbooks
Ars Technica: We got a chance to ask Steven Sinofsky some netbook questions that have been burning at our souls since we first had a look at Windows
7. For those that don't know, Sinofsky was the longtime Office head before moving over to the Windows group last year.
As a more
recent development, Netbooks as a class of hardware didn't really exist during the Windows Vista development cycle. When netbooks do ship with
Windows, the resource constraints generally force vendors into the old, wrinkly arms of XP. Sinofsky demonstrated Windows 7 on a netbook during the
PDC day-2 keynote, and we were curious to find out more about it. Here's what Sinofsky had to say about the future of Windows on netbooks.
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29.10.2008Microsoft 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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05.08.2008MS Calls in Sinofsky to Fix
Windows
Microsoft is planning to shake
up its Windows group by naming
Microsoft Office head Steven
Sinofsky as its new chief.
Sources say the move is part
of an company-wide effort to
bring tougher managers in to
lead its most crucial
divisions...
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22.03.2006Microsoft'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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30.06.2008Steven Sinofsky named President of Windows division
Microsoft today released a press statement stating that Steven Sinofsky has been named President of the Windows division. He now assumes
responsibility of the Windows business unit including both the engineering and marketing functions for Windows, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer.
"Steven Sinofsky has demonstrated the ability to lead large teams that deliver great products. The work he and the team have done in getting ready to
ship Windows 7 really defines how to develop and ship world-class software." said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. This comes as Microsoft is putting
the finishing touches on Windows 7 and is getting ready to release the RTM.
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09.07.2009Microkernel 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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07.04.2009Microsoft Promotes Steven Sinofsky to President, Windows Division
Microsoft Corp. today promoted Steven Sinofsky to president of the Windows Division. Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, most recently led the
Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, contributing to the Oct. 22 availability of Windows 7.
As president, Sinofsky assumes
responsibility for the Windows business including both the engineering and marketing functions for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer.
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09.07.2009PDC 2008: Sinofsky acknowledges Vista UAC is a problem, Windows 7 adds options
Giving a nod to developers who've apparently given a lot of feedback, as well as "certain commercials," Microsoft's platform chief Steven
Sinofsky acknowledged that perhaps User Account Control in Windows Vista may have been...a little annoying. In turn, Windows 7 has additional UAC
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28.10.2008Sinofsky acknowledges Vista UAC is a problem
Giving a nod to developers who've apparently given a lot of feedback, as well as "certain commercials," Microsoft's platform chief Steven Sinofsky
acknowledged that perhaps User Account Control in Windows Vista may have been...a little annoying.
"We got a lot of feedback
about Windows Vista," Sinofsky said, before pausing several seconds for the inevitable developer response. Given the vast amount of response he
received, he said, "We have to do what developers do." That is, to sit back, re-evaluate, and say, "What did we learn from that?" That, he said,
is what engineering is about.
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28.10.2008Microsoft Windows chief decries standards grandstanding
Microsoft will be compliant with industry standards in Internet Explorer 9 such as HTML 5, but Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows
Live division, decried the habit of vendors getting ahead of the process.
"We are not trying to market things that are not
there for developers to use yet," said Sinofsky during an interview with Network World . "Whether they are in IE or not, saying you are
standards based but then saying you are the most HTML 5 compliant browser does not make sense because the standard is not
yet. There is a
little bit of a time warp going on."
winbeta.org - 20.11.2009
Windows chief talks '7'
Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to fall almost completely off the public radar.
It's not that he hasn't been busy getting Vista Service Pack 1 out the door and starting work on Windows 7. It's just that Sinofsky doesn't want to
talk about products until they are well along in their development. Last year, Sinofsky penned a blog to his Windows unit co-workers, explaining his public
silence and urging them to follow his lead.
"I know many folks think that this type of corporate 'clamp down' on disclosure is
'old school' and that in the age of corporate transparency we should be open all the time," Sinofsky wrote. "Corporations are not really
transparent. Corporations are translucent. All organizations have things that are visible and things that are not."
winbeta.org - 27.05.2008
Windows team too large? Sinofsky weighs in
Windows engineering chief Steven Sinofsky has published his
first substantive post on the new Engineering Windows 7 blog, which attracted considerable
attention when it was launched last week.
In today's
post, Sinofsky gives a primer on the structure of the Windows team, saying it includes about 25 different feature teams, averaging 40 people each. He
also addresses the common criticism that the Windows team has become too large and unwieldy...
winbeta.org - 19.08.2008
Will Windows Become Fort Knox?
The Wall Street Journal
reported Wednesday that Office
chief Steven Sinosky might be
next in line to succeed Jim
Allchin as the head of Windows
at Microsoft.
As readers of this blog
know, we have respect for
Sinofsky's knack for
delivering Office releases
like clockwork. But we've
also been critical of Sinofsky
for his iron-fisted management
style.
Will
the Windows developers be
willing to turn their kingdom
into Fort Knox ? and will
Windows be the better for it?
If Sinofsky
ends up running Windows,
starting next year, we'll
soon find out.
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Is 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?
winbeta.org - 06.08.2008
Microsoft'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.
winbeta.org - 29.07.2008
What we just learned about Windows 7
Ina Fried: For those who want the full interview with Windows engineering head Steven Sinofsky, I've posted a nearly complete transcript. For those who want the abridged
version, along with some quick analysis, keep reading.
So what exactly did Steven Sinofsky reveal about Windows 7. I'd boil it down to three things...
winbeta.org - 27.05.2008
Microsoft 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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