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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RE: About freakin time
by Whats That There on Wed 9th Jul 2008 22:22
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RE[2]: About freakin time
by google_ninja on Wed 9th Jul 2008 22:42
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It is based on singularity, and singularity has some very modern and innovative ideas. NT is based on VMS, which is fairly conservative as kernels go.
The big shame about singularity was that it has been a research project for years now. It went under MS-RL a few months ago, but that still kept people from making a working implementation (reference license basically means read-only source code)
If this actually takes off, I would say it would be the most interesting (serious) project in the OS space since the BeOS microkernel.
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Singularity is a very interesting OS. It is nice to see them actually doing something real with it.