Thursday 13 December 2012
Midori-Cloud-Based Operating System
Thursday 13 December 2012 by Unknown
Forget Windows: Midori is coming
With many advanced versions of Windows available today such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, it is the most used operating system in the world. In 2010, Microsoft is going to launch WINDOWS 2007, but now here is time to experience a yet another technology of operating systems.
Yes, MICROSOFT is working on a new generation of operating systems called Cloud-Based Operating System and rumors are there that MIDORI will be their first such operating system, which will replace Windows fully from computer map.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
MIDORI is an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity operating system. In this the tools and libraries are completely managed code. MIDORI is designed to run directly on native hardware (x86, x64 and ARM), will be hosted on the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor, or even be hosted by a Windows process.
MIDORI can be also seen as MICROSOFT'S answer those competitors who are applying "Virtualization" as a mean to solving issues within contemporary computing.
The main idea behind MIDORI is to develop a lightweight portable OS which can be mated easily to lots of various applications.
IMPORTANCE OF MIDORI
For knowing the importance of MIDORI you have to think about, how an operating system is loaded on a computer. Actually operating system is loaded onto a hard disk physically located on that machine. In this way, the operating system is tied very tightly to that hardware. As Windows is dependent on hardware, it might face opposition from contemporary ways of working because people are extremely mobile in using different devices in order get diverse information.
Due to this trend installing different applications on a single computer may led to different compatibility issues whenever the machine require updating. The new operating system will solve these problems by the concept of Virtualizing. This will solve problems such as widespread security vulnerabilities, unexpected interactions among different applications, failures caused by errant extensions, plug-ins, and drivers and many more.
ERIC RUDDER, Senior Vice President, Technical Strategy
The importance of this project for MICROSOFT can be understood by the fact that company choose Eric Rudder , former head of Microsoft's server and tools business and a key member of Chairman Bill Gates' faction of the company, to handle it.
WHEN WILL IT BE LAUNCHED
Just Wait and See. Microsoft has not declared any such date about launching of MIDORI, but there are rumors that this project is in incubation phase.
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13 January 2013 at 12:13
Incubation period... please. It just means Microsoft sees no reason to push it... it was of major use when it was fighting OpenSource on desktop platforms back in 2009. Now that computing devices (phones, handhelds, tablets) are overtaking full scale computers it doesn't inerest MS to engage in such campaigns. The only way Microsoft will pick-up the Singularity-Midori ticket again is if OSS represents some edge for them in the device wars, which they're having trouble just breaking into right now. Even people who are big Windows fans have trouble seeing Windows RT as a viable alternative to Android. Add that Android has all the appeal in the Device arena that DOS/Windows had in the early PC Arena and you got a huge hurdle for Microsoft to overcome. And by the way think of Microsoft's 'Business and Server Tools' division. They only took off at the very end of the server wars and with a very minial slice of the pie. If this is going to be the same game plan, Microsoft will either have to buy defectors from serious competition (a very unlikely scenario considering the climate of OSS and Source Driven Software) or settle for far less a slice then even the small one they got in the server market.
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