Slashdot Mirror
Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori?
parvenu74 writes "A story from Infoworld is suggesting that the days of Windows are numbered and that Microsoft is preparing a web-based operating system code-named Midori as a successor. Midori is reported to be an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity OS, an all-managed code microkernel OS which leverages a technology called software isolated processes (SIPs) to overcome the traditional inter-thread communications issues of microkernel OSes."
Personally I will wait to see what netcraft has to say about that.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
what am I going to do with all of that fancy hardware I bought to run Vista?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
A link to the print version in TFS? This cannot be slashdot... damn DNS must have been poisoned!
... that it doesn't suck! Linux still needs competition to keep us on our toes!
There is a war going on for your mind.
Midori is going to be coded to crash at least once every 24 hours to ease regular Windows users into this "new" technology. Other than that, it's the same.
01110000 01010111 01101110 00110011 01100100
They named it after a porn star because of its gaping (security) holes and abundance of viruses.
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
Windows is no longer associated with BSOD.
Exactly. During the early days of Vista it was the Red Screen of Death.
This is a transcript of MS Legal discussing a new name: (ok, it's a joke. laugh.)
SBalmer: Developers! We need a new chair, I mean a new name for the Vista code. It can't start with a V -- people already think virus with that. And it should go to eleven.
BSmith: Why don't we call it Door?
SBalmer: That's a good idea. But a web service should start with "my."
BSmith: Then call it MyDoor.
SBalmer: Web 2.0 starts with an 'i.' How do we add an 'i' to it?
BSmith: MiDoorI?
Assistant Paralegal to BSmith: Sir, that name is already trademarked.
SBalmer: Buy 'em out, boys.
or a flavor of linux
Melon-flavored linux.
Badass Resumes
I'm sorry: I trust no company with all of my data. That's why I don't use Google docs or Microsoft's current document offering. And now they want to store all of my data? I, for one, will gladly continue using Linux.
No, no! You're only allowed to use that phrase if you welcome our data-hoarding overlords!
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Meh, it's a tie.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
"A story from Infoworld is suggesting that the days of Windows are numbered and that Microsoft is preparing a web-based operating system code-named Midori as a successor. Midori is reported to be an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity OS, an all-managed code microkernel OS which leverages a technology called software isolated processes (SIPs) to overcome the traditional inter-thread communications issues of microkernel OSes."
"Infoworld": +10 ..." + 10
"days of Windows are numbered": +20
"web-based": +7
"code-named": +4
"microkernel": +4
"leverages" +8
"a technology called
"overcome": +7
"traditional": +5
"communications issues": +10
An 85 on the bullshit meter. Impressive!
# ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /sbin/init
Or is everyone here just universally paranoid? :)
[Posting as AC for obvious privacy reasons]
Why do you want to know?
If you're running your OS inside a web browser, what is the web browser running on?
emacs, of course.
Oh yeah? Well, how about if it downloaded your OS at every bootup... twice?
They can't even statuate if EULAs are binding contracts for fuck's sake
I believe that you may have envocabularized a word who existence was not heretofore knowledged.
No that can't be right. Pornstars are usually clean and cum with some form of protection.
"They said I probly shouldn't fly with just one eye," "I am Bender. Please insert girder."
Nonesense.
It was a perfectly cromulent word, the use of which embiggens us all.
Programmer: an ingenious device that converts caffeine into code.
You obviously don't remember the days of Xterms running over 10baseT from a Sun server. Fully graphical workstations playing xtank and so on remotely on less bandwidth than high speed wireless.
You obviously must be living in the third world because here in the US we really don't have anything resembling the slow speed of a 10baseT.
Of course if you're one of those poor fools who fell for a service "advertising" such slow speeds you'll often find them doing fun things like randomly dropping or delaying packets on you.
Rural American service though is by far the most exceptional. In fact if you're a part of rural America you have two really nice options. A dial-up modem over high quality copper cables capable of letting you zip along at 24.4Kbps (note the small 'b') or a snazzy 1Mbps down 200Kbps up (give or take) satellite rig with ultra-low 700ms - 1500ms latency.
This new OS from Microsoft is definitely ready to take center stage! I can hardly wait to wait.
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once