Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed

SDTimes.com ^ | July 29, 2008 | David Worthington

[bamahead]

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[Moose4]

Translated into English, does that mean it won’t be a bloated cow of an operating system like Vista?

}:-)4

[Mr. K]

over 95% of desktop PC computing power is sitting there unused most of the time

if we could harness just a percentage of it in a networked environment it would be huge

[ShadowAce]

[bamahead]

There’s no telling, depends on how much code Mickeysoft plans to rip from open source OS’s :)

[Knitebane]

over 95% of desktop PC computing power is sitting there unused most of the time

if we could harness just a percentage of it in a networked environment it would be huge

Done already. The criminals are way ahead of you.

[null and void]

...or they could just convert to OSX, like their customers.

*quietly tip-toeing away*...

[oh8eleven]

since Microsoft’s engineers first designed Windows
Designed? IIRC, it was stolen leveraged from Apple's OS.

[Knitebane]

distributed component-based and data-driven application model

Translation:

Use of OS for a month: $19.95
Use of Office for a month: $29.95
Use of (INSERT YOUR MISSION CRITICAL BUSINESS APPLICATION HERE): $How much you got?

Nice data you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

[bamahead]

All the big guys are headed to an SOA model, because they’re watching IBM make money hand over fist doing it.

One day, that probably will make it to the consumer level...sad to say. Then it will be like dealing with the cable company.

[Moonman62]

I don’t care what technology it uses, if it’s from Microsoft it’s sure to be slow and defective. I remember how fast DOS used to run when the 386 25Mhz machines came out.

[KosmicKitty]

Actually, Midori can be quite tasty

So, who's imbibing - the engineers creating it or the consumer after they purchase it?

[Knitebane]

All the big guys are headed to an SOA model, because they’re watching IBM make money hand over fist doing it.

IBM is the master of the pay-as-you-go model in the enterprise.

Microsoft is not, and has never been, a major player in the enterprise.

Microsoft makes consumer-grade software.

IBM doesn't even try to push pay-as-you-go to the corporate desktop because it's a loser. One size does not fit all when it comes to the end user.

But that won't stop Microsoft. They'll plow headlong into this idea that they can get back control of every desktop PC.

The thought of being paid every month for the same software simply has too much of an attraction for the bean counters at One Microsoft Way.

[martin_fierro]

Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.

About damn time. It only took 'em 20 or so years to figure out the need.

[ShadowAce]

About damn time. It only took 'em 20 or so years to figure out the need.

Don't be too hasty in praising this move. They made the same claim with Longhorn/Vista also. Look how that turned out...

[PackerBoy]

Cool. I did not understand a word of this.

[antiRepublicrat]

Translated into English, does that mean it won’t be a bloated cow of an operating system like Vista?

Yes. It sounds pretty impressive from a technical standpoint.

[bamahead]

They may try to ‘force’ the market down this road. If they do it will fail, and you’ll see a tech revolt that will make the Vista uprising look like a typical day on Jerry Springer.

Developers and consumers will sour to their new ‘platform’, particularly the developers if it requires a full code rework. And with most of the open source OS’s supporting Windows binaries in some form or fashion, people could flock away in droves.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

“Yes. It sounds pretty impressive from a technical standpoint.”

OS/2 did all this stuff 20+ years ago - multitasking, multi-threading, Object Orientation, ... OS/2 was designed “from the ground up.” But with the media’s help, Gates was able to patch and modify his DOS shell (Windows) to convince users that it was a modern PC OS.