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Jul 30, 2008
Microsoft is working on a managed-mode operating system, codenamed
Midori. Managed mode is a computer program code that executes under
the management of a virtual machine, unlike an unmanaged code, which
is executed directly by the computer's CPU.
Midori has been reported to be a possible commercial successor to the
Singularity operating system, a research project started in 2003 to
build a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device
drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.
According to Microsoft, Midori is being designed from the ground up to
tackle challenges that cannot be met by simply evolving its existing
technology. Midori's proposed design is Internet-centric and provides
an overall "connectedness" between applications and devices. When
Windows was first designed,there was no "Internet" as we understand it
today, and things were added later in patches. With the Midori
however, it will focus on concurrency for both distributed
applications and local ones.
Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President for technical strategy at Microsoft
and an alumnus of Bill Gates' technical staff, is heading up the
effort.
No time frame for development has been set for Midori as its
considered a 'research project' at the moment, according to Microsoft
technical fellow Burton Smith. A spokesperson added that Midori is one
of many projects in incubation at Microsoft Research.
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