As if by magic, Microsoft appear in the news just as I was musing that they had been very quiet. They have a number of research projects underway that fall under the ‘platforms’ umbrella (an admittedly very vague remit). Midori is the name currently given to a concept that MS are examining that is to make their OS a little bit more amorphous. Or, in my opinion, to try and make it more adaptable and more likely to be on mobile devices – running on traditional PC architectures and also the ARM chipsets that are on so many phones:
Several sources have continued to chip away at the Midori story, piecing together critical portions of the overall Midori strategy, here, but in one fell swoop, Worthington snatched the limelight by landing what we shall call “the goods,” an internal document Microsoft has closely guarded.
According to Worthington, “Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely managed code. Midori is designed to run directly on native hardware (x86, x64 and ARM), be hosted on the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor, or even be hosted by a Windows process.”
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Microsoft has other goodies in store, too. Midori is also critical to Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy.
Taken from here.
Posted by jinbish 
