http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft's Midori -- a future without Windows http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
"applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems", "concurrent / parallel distribution of resources", "a method of handling applications across separate machines"? We have that, thanks, it's called Linux. The only thing I find amazing about this announcement is that they claim it will be backwards compatible.]]>Jul 30th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
I honestly hope it's the former, because if it's the latter, you need some serious help.]]>Jul 30th 2008 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
"...envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems..."

yup, someone's on acid.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
But really, that last paragraph is way to vague]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
They licensed those ideas, and then built on them.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
If you're an apple fanboy, the engadget bloggers gladly welcome you, but the commenters want you to go to TUAW]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
No, not really, but we're getting there. OpenAFS is a pretty good distributed filesystem, but nobody really uses it. It handles things like grouping shares from many machines into a single share, and concurrent writes of the same data to different machines across the network.

But it sounds like Midori is going to do something like clustering, too. Right now, beyond remote compiling and running daemons on one machine and a front end on another (mpd rocks, and so will deluge in 0.6!), Linux just doesn't have that for home use. But, if MS starts talking this up some more, I'm sure someone will tackle this. I think the infrastructure is there, but we'll probably need some more specialized governors/schedulers, whatever is involved.
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Did you really miss the sarcasm? Really?]]>Jul 30th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 31st 2008 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/(not an iSheep, just the first thing I thought of)
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Guess not... well, Brian thinks it does...]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 31st 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 31st 2008 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Aug 1st 2008 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Aug 1st 2008 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Aug 13th 2008 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
http://research.microsoft.com
]]>Nov 7th 2008 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/I realize it's easier to stay uninformed, so while you are striving for ease, don't put forth the effort to communicate with the general public.]]>Jul 30th 2008 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
I will be sure to mention these points to MS. I am sure that otherwise they would have completely missed them.

Imagine that, they would have gone live with the software, then BAM !!! some one will not have the internet hooked up and WHAM !! the softwre would not work. Everyone will be standing around looking at each other saying, "Who didn't think of that one" !!

Thanks again Alexzander
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Thanks for your sarcasm, because Microsoft has NEVER screwed up the launch of a new OS. Nope, not once. They've never had a problem.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
"The Midori documents indicate that the company has not decided what user interface abstractions are appropriate when applications cut across boundaries, or how to combine the best qualities of rich client applications and Web applications.

“A lot of these problems are being solved, at least partially, by the ideas of store-and-forward and message synchronization,” Hammond noted. “Google Gears, Adobe AIR, even the mobile OSes with things like SMS can handle occasional connectivity. Why shouldn’t this be built into core OS communication protocols, especially if they are asynchronous by default?” he asked."]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
There's just too much control in one company's hands for me.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine, among others, are heading in this direction, but I don't think they've gone so far as to write an operating system optimized for this sort of thing.]]>Jul 31st 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 31st 2008 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Oct 3rd 2008 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/by the way, "midori" is japanese for "green" - rather appropriate in our environmentally-conscious world...]]>Jul 30th 2008 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
My tinkertoy computer runs using all wood. biodegradable ftw!]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
Here's a green computer for you...
http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2069186/2111771/2129297/051122_giz_100Laptop_tn.jpg

its only $100 too! er... uh... wait a sec...

:P]]>Jul 31st 2008 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 31st 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 31st 2008 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
Again, in 10 years maybe Microsoft will have this out the door. I wouldn't worry about it.]]>Jul 31st 2008 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
If it doesn't lose backwards compatibility, then you might as well call it Windows 8. Though, just in my opinion anyway.]]>Jul 30th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/Jul 30th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/30/microsofts-midori-a-future-without-windows/
"Backwards compatibility with legacy applications and hardware has also been considered;"

Also, I'm not your bro, guy.]]>Jul 30th 2008 10:57PM