Midori (which means green in Japanese) was the code name for a managed code operating system (OS) being jointly developed by Microsoft and Microsoft Research. It had been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS whose kernel, device drivers, and application software would all be written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and would run a program spread across multiple nodes at once. It also featured a security model that sandboxes applications for increased security. Microsoft had mapped out several possible migration paths from Windows to Midori. Midori was discontinued some time in 2015, though many of its concepts were used in other Microsoft projects.
History
The code name Midori was first discovered through the PowerPoint presentation CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software.6
Another reference to Midori was found in a presentation shown during the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) October 2012 conference,7 and a paper8 from the conference's proceedings.
External links
- SD Times' David Worthington on the migration away from Windows
- SD Times' David Worthington on Midori security
- Technologizer report by David Worthington on Windows Mobile's life cycle
- Microsoft sees end of Windows era, BBC News
- Joe Duffy - Blogging about Midori, 2015
References
Foley, Mary Jo (30 June 2008). "Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. https://www.zdnet.com/article/goodbye-xp-hello-midori/ ↩
Oiaga, Marius (2008-06-30). "Life After Windows: Microsoft Midori Operating System". Softpedia. Retrieved 2008-07-22. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Life-After-Windows-Microsoft-Midori-Operating-System-88910.shtml ↩
Worthington, David (2008-07-29). "Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed". SD Times. Archived from the original on November 16, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121116060326/http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32627 ↩
Worthington, David (2008-08-05). "Microsoft's Midori to sandbox apps for increased security". SD Times. Archived from the original on December 22, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20091222084004/http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32662 ↩
Worthington, David (2008-07-31). "Microsoft maps out migration from Windows". SD Times. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130701112925/http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=32646 ↩
Musuvathi, Madanlal; Qadeer, Shaz; Ball, Thomas (November 2007). CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software (Report). Microsoft. Retrieved 2008-07-22. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=70509 ↩
Foley, Mary Jo (November 8, 2012). "Microsoft's Midori operating-system skunkworks project soldiers on". ZDnet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2012-11-08. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-midori-operating-system-skunkworks-project-soldiers-on/ ↩
Gordon, Colin; Parkinson, Matthew; Parsons, Jared; Bromfield, Aleks; Duffy, Joe (October 2012). "Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism". Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications. OOPSLA '12. Tucson, Arizona, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 21–40. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.365.5541. doi:10.1145/2384616.2384619. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2384616.2384619 ↩