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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. This can only be a good thing by blowdart · · Score: 5, Informative

    As apparently it comes with a dupe detector built in. Well if "well respected" journalists can claim things based on supposition and hope then surely I can as well?

  2. horrible article by ianare · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why was this abortion of an article selected, when there is a better ars one here, and BBC here

    1. Re:horrible article by sm62704 · · Score: 3, Informative

      You must be new here. Notice also that it's not only a dupe, but the summary says it's a dupe!

      The "abortion of an article" was selected so it could be slashdotted, setting its host server on fire, and creating true cloud computing; clouds of smoke.

      Which is what Microsoft's "cloud computing" vaporware is. They used to call these things "thin clients." Our mainframe at work served these workstations, which were dog slow, as many companies did. Departments bought "microcomputers" (PCs) to get away from the slow speed of the terminals and the stodgy IT people who didn't realise that their toys were tools that staff needed to get their jobs done.

      It seems to have gone full circle.

      --
      mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  3. Old News? by HiChris! · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/30/1714249

  4. Re:Midori is already a browser. by The+Dancing+Panda · · Score: 3, Informative

    Midori is a code name, meaning it won't be named that when it's released. It's a pretty common word, as it means "Green" in Japanese. It's also the name of a common Melon Liquer. Chill out, not everything they do is evil, it's just a name.

  5. De-MarketSpeak translation of Microsoft"'s" "SIP" by jdb2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The following is copied from my journal. It's a comment concerning the microkernel protection mechanisms of Midori which was intended to be posted in the previous story, but unfortunately I modded that one. This time, dupes actually help ;) :

    "SIP", or "Software isolated processes" is just MS marketing hype speak for what is known as a Language-based system in which seperate processes can be isolated from one another without paging or other hardware protection mechanisms. This is done using the semantics of the language in which the processes are programmed which excludes any possibility of one process intruding into the address space of another.

    One example of a similar OS would be Bell Labs' Inferno. ( thanks to Knots for pointing this out ) Also, there's JX, which is an open-source microkernel based operating system in which the (micro)kernel and the applications are written in Java and run under a modified version of the JVM.

    jdb2