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Microsoft Working On "Post-Windows" Cloud Computing OS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-all-up-there-in-the-clouds-or-something dept.

Barence writes "Microsoft is working on a web-based operating system called Midori, as it looks to life beyond Windows. Midori is expected to be a cloud-computing service, and so not as dependent on hardware as current generations of Windows. It's also expected to run with a virtualization layer between the hardware and the OS, and is expected to be a commercial offshoot of the Singularity research project which Microsoft has been working on since 2003." If this story sounds familiar to you, it probably is.

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  1. I, for one... by m3j00 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...welcome our old software-as-a-service overlords.

  2. Best "Cloud Computing OS" name: by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cloud 9!

    too bad it's by definition vaporware.

    1. Re:Best "Cloud Computing OS" name: by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 5, Funny

      As is the screen.

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  3. Cloud Computing by TheOldSchooler · · Score: 2, Funny

    If only someone could utilize the power of cloud computing to get rid of dupes.

  4. Re:FIRST PROUST! by ianare · · Score: 2, Funny

    va chier !!

  5. Re:Do you know what you are talking about? by negRo_slim · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's just code that runs on a machine.

    It's just a payment automatically debited from your account each month!

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