Future of Microsoft Windows simple plug-in Midori?

This is not the first time you read, but the future of Windows is not Windows. Since the reunification of systems with Windows XP (a single kernel for all ranges), NT systems have continued to evolve, giving Vista two years ago, and preparing Windows 7. The latter, although full of promise, is just one more step (albeit specific) in the evolution of Windows' traditional ', but a Microsoft patent foreshadows what may be the operating system the future for Redmond.

Midori, it still
We talked several times a project called Singularity. Fully managed and written almost entirely in C #, Singularity is a new vision by Microsoft that could be the operating system of the future. Unconnected with Windows and building on the foundations of modern development, it has long been a simple topic ... until it suddenly takes much more important.

Indeed, not only Singularity began to attract many people, but the system has become "viable" because another project, named Midori, was fired and placed in the incubator. At Microsoft, like many other publishers, incubation of a project always leads to a commercial product, although not necessarily as we imagine. Midori resumed Singularity, but the company following its progress with interest.

Windows system is simply environment?
Galen Hunt is the project manager of Singularity, while Eric Rudder directs the work on Midori. They are among the signatories of a patent describing a mechanism that many find barbaric while others will wonder what it really is: abstraction of an operating system from another operating system. Clearly, it comes to running a system on another system but beware: this is not virtualization.

No question of hyperviseur here: just as Windows has a layer of abstraction internal hardware, operating system future also possesses another layer allowing another system to access the hardware. But what interest? If Microsoft has huge push Midori on the market within the next few years: Windows becomes a simple interface for Midori, guarded by such obvious needs for compatibility

But why the publisher would seek such a solution? Because it would launch a system based on Midori without segmenting the market: a classic Windows, called 7, 8 or 9 (who knows?) And another, more modern, but incompatible. As long as Microsoft looks to be serious about the possibility of marketing Midori (or a derivative), there is always the problem of cohabitation. The solution would be to make the oldest a simple plug-in of the new, all without loss of performance (at least the stated aim).

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A soft strip
The more "fun" with the Microsoft patent that the mechanism described therein would not only run Windows in this way: it also speaks of a hyperviseur to increase the possibilities, or even a distribution Linux. The system described is flexible in that layer of abstraction defines what can be executed. A data layer is uniform and provides system "above" what it needs to run.

To make an analogy, it seems in this case that Midori would be the "core" and that the system would represent a space in which user frolic happily applications. Such a system would obviously complete isolation of the pilots, a goal that Microsoft seeks to achieve gradually: in "off" the kernel drivers, the publisher would remove one of the causes of crashes most common (85% in fact).

As described, the system put forward in the patent would allow the publisher to get rid of all its compatibility issues. Environments required for applications would then be put in place in the form of extensions, and can coexist with each other.

Now, keep in mind that a patent does not always on the arrival of a real product. It is for sure a track work explored and developed by several of the big heads thinking of Microsoft. If it is really developed and marketed, it will still know how to present it to the general public that the operation is understandable, and even better: transparent. But we're not there yet.

It looks promising, but it will probably never be realized. And then good,already dipping slab that all this with another layer of complexity in software, it may not be passed

In a clear example was a bone of basic Singularity. Above have been added environments for Windows or Linux compatibility. The patent describes a layer of abstraction of a bone , which acts as an interface. It provides the resources of these bone Singularity. Microsoft ultimately happen to turn the native apps + midori the legacy apps windows and linux.

At the same time it seems to be a viable solution for eliminating the problem of compatibility software. and also Without wishing to be broken up, reunification was not with XP but with Windows 2000. Previously it was Windows NT4 and Windows 98 ...

The compatibility issues is not that bad as Midori will run Java and .NET however the big gotcha is device drivers . This is the big one which will help the migration as Midori could use Windows and Windows device drivers. This will allow customers a smooth migration ( similar to 16bit Word for Windows 2 / to Office 95 32 bit) . Purests eg the Linux crowed would run Midori pure and bloat free , corporates will accept the bloat and it will alow a smooth migration.

Midori is likely to make a first appearance in Microsoft's Cloud Severs (Azure) and Windows Mobile 8 ( or7) - note these 2 are likely as there is fewer backward compatability risks. Replacing Windows may follow but its a huge risk and as you stated we see it it will be like Windows NT with the existing windows taking a lower priced Windows 98 style desktop roll .

This may be of interest
Midori , 5th Generation OS The end of Linux ..and Windows

Ben Kloosterman
http://www.shanghai-software.com/blog