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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."
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".
... 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.
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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.
"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.