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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. Do you know what you are talking about? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    so not as dependent on hardware as current generations of Windows. It's also expected to run with a virtualisation layer between the hardware and the OS,

    You mean a kind of, say, Hardware Abstraction Layer?

    Yeah... they've been doing that kind of thing for over ten years.

  2. Re:Not as dependent on hardware... by corychristison · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I, personally, think they are digging their own grave with this one.

    There just isn't enough bandwidth everywhere for there to be a totally online OS.