[bamahead]

ping

[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]

[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.

[KosmicKitty]

Actually, Midori can be quite tasty

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

[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.

[PackerBoy]

Cool. I did not understand a word of this.

[GOP Poet]

Microsoft has gotten a serious beat down by Apple. Seems they are the last to know though. They need some innovative, new leadership. They have been on creative & innovative life support for well, well over a decade.

[JoJo Gunn]

The Midori documents foresee applications running across a multitude of topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at separate places.

Jeez, is this the true article source? :)

[mr snerd]

ping

[ccmay]

Copland 2.0. Or is that Pink?

-ccm

[j_tull]

Midori will be built with an asynchronous-only architecture that is built for task concurrency and parallel use of local and distributed resources, with a distributed component-based and data-driven application model, and dynamic management of power and other resources.

I'm a professional geek working in a 100% Windows environement. I also spent twenty years in the US Navy. That sentence is the most impressive example of geek-speak nonsense I have ever had the pleasure to parse.

[Bikkuri]

Midori means “green” in Japanese...