Posted on 07/31/2008 10:24:16 AM PDT by bamahead
Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.
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, ARM), be hosted on the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor, or even be hosted by a Windows process.
According to published reports, Eric Rudder, senior vice president for technical strategy at Microsoft and an alumnus of Bill Gates' technical staff, is heading up the effort. Rudder served as senior vice president of Microsoft’s Servers and Tools group until 2005. A Microsoft spokesperson refused comment.
Building Midori from the ground up to be connected underscores how much computing has changed since Microsoft’s engineers first designed Windows; there was no Internet as we understand it today, the PC was the user’s sole device and concurrency was a research topic.
According to the documentation, Midori will be built with an asynchronous-only architecture that is built for task concurrency and parallel use of local and distributed resources, with a distributed component-based and data-driven application model, and dynamic management of power and other resources.
The Midori documents foresee applications running across a multitude of topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at separate places.
In order to efficiently distribute applications across nodes, Midori will introduce a higher-level application model that abstracts the details of physical machines and processors. The model will be consistent for both the distributed and local concurrency layers, and it is internally known as Asynchronous Promise Architecture.
(Excerpt) Read more at sdtimes.com ...
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Translated into English, does that mean it won’t be a bloated cow of an operating system like Vista?
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over 95% of desktop PC computing power is sitting there unused most of the time
if we could harness just a percentage of it in a networked environment it would be huge
There’s no telling, depends on how much code Mickeysoft plans to rip from open source OS’s :)
if we could harness just a percentage of it in a networked environment it would be huge
*quietly tip-toeing away*...
Translation:
Use of OS for a month: $19.95
Use of Office for a month: $29.95
Use of (INSERT YOUR MISSION CRITICAL BUSINESS APPLICATION HERE): $How much you got?
Nice data you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.
All the big guys are headed to an SOA model, because they’re watching IBM make money hand over fist doing it.
One day, that probably will make it to the consumer level...sad to say. Then it will be like dealing with the cable company.
I don’t care what technology it uses, if it’s from Microsoft it’s sure to be slow and defective. I remember how fast DOS used to run when the 386 25Mhz machines came out.
So, who's imbibing - the engineers creating it or the consumer after they purchase it?
IBM is the master of the pay-as-you-go model in the enterprise.
Microsoft is not, and has never been, a major player in the enterprise.
Microsoft makes consumer-grade software.
IBM doesn't even try to push pay-as-you-go to the corporate desktop because it's a loser. One size does not fit all when it comes to the end user.
But that won't stop Microsoft. They'll plow headlong into this idea that they can get back control of every desktop PC.
The thought of being paid every month for the same software simply has too much of an attraction for the bean counters at One Microsoft Way.
About damn time. It only took 'em 20 or so years to figure out the need.
Don't be too hasty in praising this move. They made the same claim with Longhorn/Vista also. Look how that turned out...
Cool. I did not understand a word of this.
Yes. It sounds pretty impressive from a technical standpoint.
They may try to ‘force’ the market down this road. If they do it will fail, and you’ll see a tech revolt that will make the Vista uprising look like a typical day on Jerry Springer.
Developers and consumers will sour to their new ‘platform’, particularly the developers if it requires a full code rework. And with most of the open source OS’s supporting Windows binaries in some form or fashion, people could flock away in droves.
“Yes. It sounds pretty impressive from a technical standpoint.”
OS/2 did all this stuff 20+ years ago - multitasking, multi-threading, Object Orientation, ... OS/2 was designed “from the ground up.” But with the media’s help, Gates was able to patch and modify his DOS shell (Windows) to convince users that it was a modern PC OS.
Might be their best move. Regardless, they are going to need to bite the bullet, undertake the ground-up OS redesign that Apple did for OS/X, and tell Grandma and the big corporations that their Windows 95-era apps just aren't going to work any more. ;)
OS/2 was exactly what you would expect a desktop OS designed by veteran IBM mainframe systems programmers to be - perfectly safe because it couldn't actually run any of those pesky and dangerous applications users needed to operate their businesses. Where it ran dedicated, limited apps like ATMs it was fairly successful - as a user desktop it was a disaster.
IBM made the opposite mistake from Microsoft - supporting nothing instead of supporting everything - and OS/2 crashed and burned a lot sooner because of it. Vista shows the folly of the opposite extreme, but Microsoft has made a whole lot of money in the interim.
Microsoft has gotten a serious beat down by Apple. Seems they are the last to know though. They need some innovative, new leadership. They have been on creative & innovative life support for well, well over a decade.
Jeez, is this the true article source? :)
Yup:
Wonder if it will similar to LINUX - I will be converting all of my computers (current count is 6) to LINUX - much more friendly and cheaper to run (of course I used to be a UNIX admin)
It means you'll never see it at home.
Already being done.
google Botnets
For the serious multithreading, the best I’ve ever seen was BeOS. A dual-processor PowerPC with BeOS could play several videos, animations and music at the same time without a hiccup — in the mid 90s.
This goes a little further though, but then it is over 10 years later.
OS X with XGrid.
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Ughh...I'll never move beyond the rabbit ears of computing...
-ccm
I'm a professional geek working in a 100% Windows environement. I also spent twenty years in the US Navy. That sentence is the most impressive example of geek-speak nonsense I have ever had the pleasure to parse.
Midori means “green” in Japanese...
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