Midori OS: Microsoft Sees End of Windows Era

In some years time the most popular operating system (OS) in the World may become obsolete as Microsoft started the development of a new OS. The Windows family of Operating Systems including XP, Vista, Windows 7, all are going to get replaced in a few years time by a new high-tech OS, code named Midori. Although the project is still in its early stages, if successful, Midori will be based on a new technologies called “Cloud based operating system”, and Virtualization”.

Rather than being tied to a hard disc, the new OS will be run natively or hosted across multiple platforms to take advantage of the perceived mobility of future computer users. This would make it easier to manage physical hardware devices and possibly give Microsoft an edge as more and more applications migrate to the Web in future.

While we do not know how and when the Midori architecture will be launched, it still is a very exciting and ambitious prospect (creating a virtual and portable OS that can be easily combined to share data among many machines in different computer gadgets). However, the task of replacing Windows will not be an easy one for Microsoft and how they intend to cope with its financial challenges can only be imagined.

The co-existence of Midori with the existing Windows will be the real deal for Microsoft. One way would involve having Midori run under Windows as a subsystem, with the OS acting as a device driver. Another approach involves running Windows alongside Midori, and the last alternative would be a standalone Midori implementation that could run traditional Windows applications. Allowing Midori applications to co-exist and interoperate with existing Windows applications, as well as to provide a Migration path would be the Microsoft’s main aim.

MIDORI has been designed to run directly on native hardware (X64, X86 and ARM). It will be hosted on the Windows Hyper –V hypervisor or Windows process.

An experimental Operating System being developed by the ‘Microsoft Research’ based on a technology called “Singularity” is said to be applied to Midori. Singularity offers a highly dependable OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.  Totally new security model will be developed for the new OS.

The Microsoft Corporation is not ready to reveal the developments about the Midori. They just say that Midori is one of the many research projects in incubation phase going on in Microsoft. There is no news about the release of Midori, but the techies still believe that it would take some more years for Microsoft to launch the new OS.