Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? 695
parvenu74 writes "A story from Infoworld is suggesting that the days of Windows are numbered and that Microsoft is preparing a web-based operating system code-named Midori as a successor. Midori is reported to be an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity OS, an all-managed code microkernel OS which leverages a technology called software isolated processes (SIPs) to overcome the traditional inter-thread communications issues of microkernel OSes."
Windows is dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Personally I will wait to see what netcraft has to say about that.
With a web based OS... (Score:5, Funny)
A Link to the Print Version? (Score:5, Funny)
Here's hoping.... (Score:5, Funny)
... that it doesn't suck! Linux still needs competition to keep us on our toes!
Re:Thin Client? (Score:5, Funny)
Worms will soon find a home @ MICROSOFT (Score:1, Funny)
>>>>GAME OVER
Re:With a web based OS... (Score:5, Funny)
You'll need it to render the silverlight apps.
Re:This is great news! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:With a web based OS... (Score:4, Funny)
It makes a great ottoman. On a cold day, plug it in, voila, warm feet!
Re:Thin Client? (Score:5, Funny)
Windows is no longer associated with BSOD.
Exactly. During the early days of Vista it was the Red Screen of Death.
Re: Midori is a Linux distro from Transmeta (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is great news! (Score:1, Funny)
Cool! And they can name the next release of Windows "Linda Lovelace", cause, you know, it REALLY sucks!
Re:And a drink (Score:5, Funny)
SBalmer: Developers! We need a new chair, I mean a new name for the Vista code. It can't start with a V -- people already think virus with that. And it should go to eleven.
BSmith: Why don't we call it Door?
SBalmer: That's a good idea. But a web service should start with "my."
BSmith: Then call it MyDoor.
SBalmer: Web 2.0 starts with an 'i.' How do we add an 'i' to it?
BSmith: MiDoorI?
Assistant Paralegal to BSmith: Sir, that name is already trademarked.
SBalmer: Buy 'em out, boys. [about.com]
Re:Prediction (Score:3, Funny)
If that's true all I have to say is:
Midori's sour.
Thanks, I'm here all week!
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
or a flavor of linux
Melon-flavored linux.
404 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:TLA conflict (Score:1, Funny)
It also stands for Suck It, Peon.
Re:Prediction (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry: I trust no company with all of my data. That's why I don't use Google docs or Microsoft's current document offering. And now they want to store all of my data? I, for one, will gladly continue using Linux.
No, no! You're only allowed to use that phrase if you welcome our data-hoarding overlords!
Re:TLA conflict (Score:5, Funny)
Meh, it's a tie. [googlefight.com]
Re:Thin Client? (Score:1, Funny)
"Oh, shut up already. These jokes are getting old and redundant."
Ah, did someone called your baby UGLY?
Re:Prediction (Score:1, Funny)
No, web-based == !#%1a120a!@#$!..
CONNECTION LOST
Re:No longer associated with BSOD? (Score:2, Funny)
Speaking as a sado-masochist, my favorite activites after flogging and caning are re-installing Linux and installing Linux for other people.
WoW (Score:1, Funny)
So now WoW = World Of Windows?
85 on the Bullshit Meter (Score:5, Funny)
"A story from Infoworld is suggesting that the days of Windows are numbered and that Microsoft is preparing a web-based operating system code-named Midori as a successor. Midori is reported to be an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity OS, an all-managed code microkernel OS which leverages a technology called software isolated processes (SIPs) to overcome the traditional inter-thread communications issues of microkernel OSes."
"Infoworld": +10 ..." + 10
"days of Windows are numbered": +20
"web-based": +7
"code-named": +4
"microkernel": +4
"leverages" +8
"a technology called
"overcome": +7
"traditional": +5
"communications issues": +10
An 85 on the bullshit meter. Impressive!
Re:Thin Client? (Score:2, Funny)
Remind ME how this differs from a Mainframe...it's "central scrutinizer" control all over again.
So I guess we can expect to see the old Apple "Big Brother" commercial dusted off and the "personal computer revolution" started all over again.
Well if history is going to repeat itself and I'm going to go through puberty all over again, I'm getting laid earlier this time.
Re:Prediction (Score:5, Funny)
# ln -s /usr/bin/firefox /sbin/init
Re:Thin Client? (Score:2, Funny)
I concur with the parent post that
These jokes are getting old and redundant. My Windows XP has not crashed a single time in months. Windows is no longer associa [NO CARRIER]
Re:Prediction (Score:5, Funny)
Or is everyone here just universally paranoid? :)
[Posting as AC for obvious privacy reasons]
Why do you want to know?
Re:Prediction (Score:3, Funny)
Judging form the success of the furniture rental business model, I'd say they can charge $24.95+ a month and still be a huge success.
Re:Thin Client? (Score:4, Funny)
"Oh, shut up already. These jokes are getting old and redundant."
Ah, did someone called your baby UGLY?
I think someone called his baby buggy.
Hardware for Vista you say...? (Score:3, Funny)
Simulate a nuclear explosion, a hurricane or the Big Bang. Down to the particle.
Or, get it to work on the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
If you need more suggestions, find out what your local University/ies is/are running on their cluster.
Duh (Score:5, Funny)
If you're running your OS inside a web browser, what is the web browser running on?
emacs, of course.
Re:A Link to the Print Version? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Could do it in BIOS, but stupid as hell to do s (Score:5, Funny)
Re:all the way down... (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft Turtles(TM)!
Re:Prediction (Score:5, Funny)
I believe that you may have envocabularized a word who existence was not heretofore knowledged.
Re:This is great news! (Score:5, Funny)
No that can't be right. Pornstars are usually clean and cum with some form of protection.
The new Apple OS (Score:3, Funny)
Motoko Kusanagi is going to kick Midori's ass.
Re:Could do it in BIOS, but stupid as hell to do s (Score:2, Funny)
This will not end well.
Re:Prediction (Score:4, Funny)
It was a perfectly cromulent word, the use of which embiggens us all.
Re:Prediction (Score:5, Funny)
You obviously don't remember the days of Xterms running over 10baseT from a Sun server. Fully graphical workstations playing xtank and so on remotely on less bandwidth than high speed wireless.
You obviously must be living in the third world because here in the US we really don't have anything resembling the slow speed of a 10baseT.
Of course if you're one of those poor fools who fell for a service "advertising" such slow speeds you'll often find them doing fun things like randomly dropping or delaying packets on you.
Rural American service though is by far the most exceptional. In fact if you're a part of rural America you have two really nice options. A dial-up modem over high quality copper cables capable of letting you zip along at 24.4Kbps (note the small 'b') or a snazzy 1Mbps down 200Kbps up (give or take) satellite rig with ultra-low 700ms - 1500ms latency.
This new OS from Microsoft is definitely ready to take center stage! I can hardly wait to wait.