Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 30th Jul 2008 21:26 UTC, submitted by snydeq
Microsoft appears to be assembling its game plan for the day when the Windows client OS as it has been developed for the past 20 years becomes obsolete. The incubation project, also known as Midori, seeks to create a componentized, Net-centric OS, based on connected systems - one that largely eliminates dependencies between local apps and the hardware on which they run. SDTimes is also featuring an article that has some more details about Midori.
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Considering those OS's open-source natures (except for current AIX), and our penchant for thinking in terms of evolution vs revolution... I don't see significant fracturing in our future. We tend to maintain a certain level of diversity of offerings, meaning more heterogeneity and less homogeneity than Microsoft. But I would not expect the level of heterogeneity to increase substantially. The trend that I see is more a very gradual move toward the elimination of arbitrary differences, while retaining those differences which really make a difference.
Microsoft is actually a bit late to the game regarding "the network is the computer" thinking. The unix-like OS community has had a contingent thinking along those lines for some years.
Then again... to an extent, no technology truly exists until Microsoft "invents" it.
Edited 2008-07-31 14:48 UTC