Cloud Computing: Microsoft Is Getting Serious About A Strange New Operating System That Won’t Run Windows Apps
December 31, 2013
Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.
Microsoft is creating a brand new computer programming language and it could be using that language to create an operating system that has nothing to do with Windows. The new language was revealed on Friday by a Microsoft researcher named Jim Duffy in a blog post. Its relationship to the new operating system was discussed on Reddit by someone claiming to be an ex-Microsoft employee.
This operating system is code-named Midori, reports ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley. Midori has been in the works since at least 2008 as a pure research project, Foley reports. Midori was initially an experiment to write an operating system from scratch that was small and fast and didn’t need to be compatible with the huge numbers of Windows apps already out on the market…
It looked like it was destined to remain a research project forever. But now it looks like Midori has been moved out of the research group and into the group that works on Microsoft’s commercial operating systems (Windows, Windows RT, and Windows Phone), Foley reports:…
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