Microsoft Details "Midori" Cloud Computing OS

[Capper]

Microsoft prepares to make perhaps the biggest leap in its history

For a company like Microsoft, constant change is inherent for survival. The company recognizes this and with each iteration of its Windows operating system, it tries to react to the lessons learned from the last OS and the current market trends. Windows 7 will try to learn and grow from Windows Vista, just as Vista tried to grow from XP before it.
However, one thing for Microsoft has always stayed constant -- the Windows brand name. Since November of 1985, with the release of Windows 1.0, Microsoft has never strayed far from the brand name that made it in the OS business. But now as it sees the need to evolve yet again. Internal company documents have revealed it is doing the unthinkable -- it is designing a non-Windows branded OS.

Such ideas at Microsoft's OS division might be branded as heresy by some, but others laud the move. As Microsoft feels that no existing technology is sufficient for the OS's unique challenges, the new OS will be an entirely new design, built from the ground up. The system is codenamed Midori and it will be released sometime post-2010.

The new OS will focus on a rapidly growing field of computing -- cloud computing. Cloud computing -- or the movement to shift hardware and software, particularly storage, out of home PCs and into computing clusters -- is gaining significant momentum. Thanks to widespread high speed internet, an internet-connected box communicating remotely with hardware can perform visually approximately as well as a box with dedicated hardware. Further, by adopting a server-style hardware system for the cloud computing resources, costs will drop, the driving motivation behind the push to adopt cloud computing.

DailyTech - Microsoft Details "Midori" Cloud Computing OS

[screwballl]

I read through that but I forsee it dying a quick death... with more and more ISPs implementing caps and pay-per-GB plans, unless they open the entire internet for free (or super cheap) PLUS massively increase the capacity and bandwidth to every US citizen, cloud computing will be just something for universities, large corporations and such.

[stinger608]

Well I'm fairly certain that when, and if, they develop that type of OS, it will take several years for it to be common place in the house hold computers.
As you mentioned Screwy, it will most likely target the universities and big scale businesses for a few years at least.

Once that type of "cloud" OS begins surfacing though, the internet as we now know it will slowly start dying, as then "big brother" will have a ton more control on what we do with our systems

Just exactly where they want to be heading as I see it

[screwballl]

yep... and RIAA and the MPAA will love every minute of it... as well as almost every government around

[Atiesto]

Wyse doesn't even work well on 1000Mbs lans, why do they think it will work well on a 6Mbs dsl line with 100ms pings?

[screwballl]

Dell is trying to trademark the term "cloud computing"

Slashdot | Dell Tries To Trademark "Cloud Computing"

[WhiteEagle]

Good luck to Dell. I hope that one gets refused.

[screwballl]

Rumor: MS may try to use this to replace windows

Rumor: Microsoft ‘Midori’ Project May Replace Windows OS - Webmonkey