Microsoft planning Windows replacement

Web-based Midori being worked on now

Microsoft planning Windows replacement. Software, Microsoft, Midori, Windows XP, Vista, Operating Systems 0

5 August 2008 10:31 GMT / By Katie Scott

Although the details are scant, Microsoft has admitted that it is working on a replacement for the Windows operating system.

Midori - which is reportedly just one of the options that the computing giant is working on - could see a radical move away from client-based systems.

It is likely to be web-based so users would be able to use Midori from a number of different PCs.

The Software Development Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents about the project, and ti explains further that Midori will be "a component-based system independent of client hardware, instead running within a hypervisor virtual enclosure or hosted by a Windows instance".

In other words - it is a reaction against the virtualisation other computing competitors are developing.

Microsoft, however, isn't giving anything away.

It told the BBC: "Midori is one of many incubation projects underway at at Microsoft. It's simply a matter of being too early in the incubation to talk about it".

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  • I already use LogMeIn and the Orb to chuck my media and desktop about the house and country so I'm definitely intrigued to see what extra Microsoft can offer the platform.

    Posted by L.Rawlins, UK

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