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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