Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Aug 2008 23:12 UTC
Windows The Windows 7 craze is barely over, and yet the internet is already buzzing with the next big thing from Microsoft: a project called Midori. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing what Midori actually is, and they say it's the clean-break from Windows many of us have been waiting for. The SD Times article is heavy on the details, and quite technical, but luckily Ars Technica provides a more accessible summary of what Microsoft has in store for Midori.
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by JonathanBThompson on Tue 5th Aug 2008 00:49 UTC in reply to "?"
JonathanBThompson
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2006-05-26

"Midori" is a codename, too: which means it isn't a final name that'll be used, most likely. What did they call Windows Vista before it was referred to as Windows Vista? Same thing going on here, assuming it ever gets outside of research and development. In fact, if you look up "Midori" on Wikipedia, you'll see that it is a generic word/name by itself, so getting upset that Microsoft is using "Midori" when it also happens to be used for a web browser is silly. Heck, Linus Torvalds used the name first for a Linux distro back in 2001, but that's just what Wikipedia lists for computer field naming: there's also the various films by the same name that pre-date that, too, not to mention who-knows-how-many other places and things.

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by Isolationist on Tue 5th Aug 2008 07:38 in reply to "RE: ?"
Isolationist Member since:
2006-05-28

"What did they call Windows Vista before it was referred to as Windows Vista?"

Doomed?

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RE[3]: ?
by raver31 on Tue 5th Aug 2008 07:44 in reply to "RE[2]: ?"
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2005-07-06

Hardly, they called it everything that they could possibly call it to promote it.

Exciting
Awesome
Fast
Feature-packed
Modern
Stable
Secure

I dont however see anything that said Doomed

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RE[3]: ?
by StaubSaugerNZ on Tue 5th Aug 2008 09:36 in reply to "RE[2]: ?"
StaubSaugerNZ Member since:
2007-07-13

"What did they call Windows Vista before it was referred to as Windows Vista?"

Doomed?


Er, thanks for the joke - but FYI it was "Longhorn" I believe.

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