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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05.08.2008T-Mobile calls it a day for WAP
UK operator T-Mobile is disconnecting its CSD-WAP subscribers from July 9th, suggesting customers might like to switch to GPRS or something a little
more 21st century, and disposing of pay-per-minute internet access. Circuit Switched Data (CSD) was how mobile phones accessed data services in the
early days, or at least the technology that allowed them to try. Technically equivalent to a dial-up modem, it allows speeds of up to 9.6Kb/s, ideal
for downloading the latest news and reviews from the Mobile Internet.
The first WAP phones only had CSD, and it was the 9.6Kb/sec speed
that drove the creation of WAP itself: a desperate attempt to create a usable experience over such slow connections. But even the mono graphics and
text-menu content was painfully slow to use, and starkly contrasted with TV advertising in the UK, from Genie Internet, promoting the Mobile
Internet.
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11.06.2008Microsoft 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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05.08.2008Microsoft'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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07.04.2009Opera Launches 'Mini' Phone
Browser
Opera Software on Tuesday
rolled out the final version
of Opera Mini, a full Web
browser designed to run on any
mobile phone that supports
Java. The software has been in
trial mode since August and is
available for download free of
charge by loading
mini.opera.com in a phone's
WAP browser...
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24.01.2006Google Offers Java-based Mobile Gmail
Google began offering a
mobile-application based
version of its Gmail product
for mobile phones capable of
running Java applications on
Thursday. The company says the
new product offers much faster
access to e-mail than its
WAP-based offering...
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02.11.2006Is 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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06.08.2008Adobe Takes New CS3 Suite to Phones, Too
At the CTIA show, Adobe showed
off Adobe Device Central CS3,
an integrated software
component that works across
different applications in
their new Creative Suite
family, offering both
professional and individual
web designers an easier way to
create WAP sites for cell
phones. Compared with
traditional Web design, which
usually requires testing
through just a few browsers,
WAP page designers currently
have to load files onto dozens
of handsets, test them, and
re-code them in a seemingly
endless loop. Developers can
now alleviate this problem by
using Adobe Device Central in
conjunction with some of
Adobe's newest products,
including Dreamweaver CS3.
Designers and coders can now
get a comprehensive testing
facility that approximates how
pages and graphics will look
on dozens of different cell
phones, most of which have
different screen resolutions,
color depths, memory
constraints, and other
performance
characteristics.
Developers can rescale
graphics, simulate a phone's
backlight after it dims, or
even add artificial screen
reflections and change the
color balance so that it's as
if you were standing outside
in the sunlight with each
handset. Adobe Device Central
supports over 200 handsets at
launch, with plans to offer
quarterly updates that contain
profiles for whatever new
handsets were released during
that quarter. At CTIA on
Wednesday, Adobe also
announced an exclusive
partnership with Verizon
Wireless to deliver richer
data services over Adobe's
new FlashCast mobile platform.
FlashCast technology allows
developers to deliver more
capable interfaces and
detailed graphics to newer
Adobe Flash-capable handsets.
Expect the first handsets and
services using FlashCast
technology to appear on
Verizon's network in the
second half of 2007.
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31.03.2007Microsoft'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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31.07.2008Investing in Mobile's Future
A few years back when the Associated Press was mulling whether to make a big investment in mobile content distribution, it came to a somewhat
counterintuitive conclusion -- to go for the relatively few mobile phones capable of supporting full, rich Web experiences, rather than the far
broader market of less-advanced, mass-market cell phones.
Instead of tailoring content for the significantly larger market of
phones that supported Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) -- a simplified version of the Web designed for mobile devices -- the AP held out for more
robust smartphone devices. And, it said, the bet paid off.
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07.10.2008Vodafone to Launch Video Service
YouTube, Google Video, MSN
Soapbox, Break, Vimeo,
Jumpcut, Blip, Metacafe,
Revver, iFilm and now,
whatever Vodafone decides to
call it's new "Web 2.0"
video service for its Live
mobile phone portal. The
service will be launched at
the Cebit trade show in
Hanover, Germany, in March. It
will offer customers with
camera-enabled handsets to
take videos and upload them,
either via MMS (Multimedia
Messaging Service ) or WAP
(Wireless Application
Protocol). Vodafone customers
will be able to access the
Live portal using PCs as well
as mobile phones.
Vodaphone is planning to pay
its users based on the number
of times their videos are
downloaded.
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25.01.2007Microsoft, 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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