SDTimes is running a story about details of a new operating system being developed at Microsoft called Midori. It is supposedly based on Microsoft’s Singularity operating system built entirely on managed code ala .Net. This could be Microsoft’s first non-Windows commercial OS since DOS. If SDTimes’ details are right it may be the first OS to support one of the features I have been pining for for many years: cloud computing within the home.
Midori is the code name for a managed code operating system being developed by Microsoft Research. It has been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of 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. It was designed for concurrency, and can run a program spread across multiple nodes at once. It also features an entirely new security model that sandboxes applications for increased security. Microsoft has mapped out several possible migration paths from Windows to Midori.
