Midori. MS's secret OS to possibly replace MS's Windows ?

[bg]

Looks like MS is preparing an OS that won't run Window's apps
Very strange.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-getting-serious-strange-operating-200253250.html

excerpt

Microsoft is creating a brand new computer programming language and it could be using that language to create an operating system that has nothing to do with Windows.

The new language was revealed on Friday by a Microsoft researcher named Jim Duffy in a blog post. Its relationship to the new operating system was discussed on Reddit by someone claiming to be an ex-Microsoft employee.

This operating system is code-named Midori, reports ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.

Midori has been in the works since at least 2008 as a pure research project, Foley reports. Midori was initially an experiment to write an operating system from scratch that was small and fast and didn't need to be compatible with the huge numbers of Windows apps already out on the market.

It looked like it was destined to remain a research project forever. But now it looks like Midori has been moved out of the research group and into the group that works on Microsoft's commercial operating systems (Windows, Windows RT, and Windows Phone), Foley reports:

I heard from two of my contacts that Midori -- Microsoft's non-Windows-based operating-system project -- moved into the Unified Operating System group under Executive Vice President Terry Myerson. (Before that, it was an incubation project, without a potential commercialization home inside the company.)

All of this could give us a glimpse into how Microsoft is preparing for a post-Ballmer, post-PC, post-Windows era.

Oh boy..

[PolishMike]

I hope its better than the liquor..

[xOperator]

There are tons of OS' out there, just because MS made another one and moved it out of the research doesnt mean it will ever be shown to public. MS had another "secret' OS they made in 2005 or so, and it never went public either...

[pc_load_letter]

Sad to see MS putting all their eggs in the cloud computing\ application hosting basket.

It's really hurting small to mid-size companies and .edu.

I plan to move most of our WinXP machines to a linux thin clients.

[yellowsulphur]

Like their aren't enough languages out there already.

[drclark]

There is no denying that ms has missed the boat on mobile computing. Most folks do not like win8 and how many folks are using android or iPhone smart phones.

A tablet or smartphone is sufficient for most folks computing needs (reading email, web browsing, audio/video streaming). Add a keyboard and monitor dock and today's devices would also be sufficient for light word processing and spreadsheets, etc.

Few people actually need the processing power in a desktop or laptop, and hence, don't really need Windows.

I imagine at some point there will be a time when my grand children won't know what a pc is/was.

[the86d]

Why bother even researching it.

Linux has come a LONG way. Burn an ISO (or make a ISO=>USB-drive) and boot to that, give it a try as a LiveCD/DVD/USB, it won't damage your current OS unless you tell it to (by installing).
I was running off of Pear Linux BETA 7 x64 for 6 months at work, and it was WAY more stable than Windows 7 x86, (I got a new rig and now running Win7x64 and it is more stable than the x86 flavor) but the point is that you can do just about everything on a FREE OS (games might be excluded, but I have a 360 for that and many have a PS*), I even flashed one of my phones to factory in Pear Linux.

If you are going to learn something new, learn something that is efficient, and that does not appear to be what M$ has done in the last few versions of Win. I shouldn't need an i7 with 16GB of ram to run a host OS, and a VM or two, but I did need these things-running Windows... Win7 actually ran better in my testing in a VM rather than natively.

Win8 sucks BAD (efficientcy and speed of getting anything done), and Win7 sucked less (if you display the quicklaunch), but WinXP sucked even less OOTB than both, see the progression?