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Midori: A Non-Windows OS in the Works, Not Just Experimental

Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 9th Jul 2008 18:22 UTC, submitted by Thom_Holwerda

Codename Midori is a derivative of Singularity that is meant to supersede Windows, and it is more than just a research project. Singularity, is an experimental microkernel and operating system project started in 2003 for which Microsoft posted the source code back in March. Unfortunately Singularity was developed exclusively for research purposes and is not intended for practical use.

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Comment by stestagg

by stestagg on Wed 9th Jul 2008 21:08 UTC

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My guess is that by the time this thing is released, backwards compatibility will be provided through virtualization, and so the compatibility barrier will be much lower

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RE: Comment by stestagg

by Luminair on Wed 9th Jul 2008 21:19 in reply to "Comment by stestagg"

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2007-03-30

yes, I concur

Edited 2008-07-09 21:19 UTC

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RE: Comment by stestagg

by tdemj on Wed 9th Jul 2008 21:40 in reply to "Comment by stestagg"

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2006-01-03

I agree, it's entirely possible. Think of the seamless virtualization of VMWare Fusion or Parallels. Users won't even notice that a window is running under a legacy OS. Only drivers and perhaps services will be required to be native on the new OS.

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RE[2]: Comment by stestagg

by helf on Wed 9th Jul 2008 22:33 in reply to "RE: Comment by stestagg"

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2005-07-06

which is what Vista shoulda had. Something like this should have been done a LONG time ago.

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