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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. Midori is already a browser. by mr_mischief · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's quite sad that Microsoft feels the need to steal the name of an existing browser for their new browser-based project. A simple Google search reveals there's already a Midori browser. The company Steve wants to buy reveals the same thing. Even MSN knows about it, so Live Search isn't left out.

    Transmeta even had a Linux distribution meant for Internet appliances called -- you guessed it -- Midori.

    How about a little due diligence, Microsoft? Or is the plan to just lie, cheat, steal, and discredit credit-worthy opponents in the eyes of CIOs and the press? What about the new, nicer, more open Microsoft we keep hearing about? Is that just more underhanded marketing building on the goodwill of truly open companies?

    1. Re:Midori is already a browser. by poetmatt · · Score: 0, Troll

      Really?

      What have they done that has not been involving some subterfuge. Name one thing since their conception that did not involve either: stealing someone else's idea, embrace extend extinguish, or was legitimately good and didn't have some hidden reason behind it that reinforced the evil or wasn't a complete and blatant lie.

      (note: any "donations" by the gates corporation goes out the door with that too - follow the money on their "science" investments).

  2. Windows Cloud Computing? by tristian_was_here · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess Microsoft have finally learnt it takes more than one average desktop computer to run Vista.