computer program source code that will execute only under the management of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine. = the Great Controlling Unknown...
Posted on 01/04/2014 8:48:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Reportedly, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) will soon be introducing a brand new computer programming language. This programming language, in turn, would be used to develop an operating system called “Midori” whose operations will not be similar to Windows in any way.
The new programming language is code-named “M#” as per reports and is an extension of C#. Midori represents a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed codes.
Managed code is a term coined by Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to identify computer program source code that will execute only under the management of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine.
Midori is not compatible with the Windows apps that are already out on the market. However, it is likely that certain features of Midori could well be integrated into the next version of Windows, namely Windows 9.
Midori is reportedly designed to cater to the need for writing apps for cloud computing. However, Midori is not the only language to cater to cloud-computing. Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) too created a new programming language called Golang (or Go) to develop apps for the cloud. Golang has proved to be an improved substitute for Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)’s Java and Microsoft’s very own language .Net.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is aiming to gain market share in cloud computing through its Azure cloud service. In this regard, we believe that a dedicated cloud operating system will boost Microsoft’s competitive position against the likes of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN).
However, the focus now remains on the growth trajectory of Windows 8. The company is still persuading developers to write more apps for Windows 8, which has failed to impress due to lack of user-friendly nature and has nothing new to offer.
In such a scenario, we believe that it is very unlikely for Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to launch a full-fledged non-Windows operating system anytime in the near future.
If one does not hold the data, one does not own the data.
There are many industries where cloud computing is contemplated in the same stream of thought as seppuku.
computer program source code that will execute only under the management of a Common Language Runtime virtual machine. = the Great Controlling Unknown...
And an 8th grader wrote this blustery and breath taking story!
Odd choice of names, since there is a Midori browser for Linux.
Good observation. Cloudness might be able to get you more crunch power, but you may not want your data to just be in cloud and that’s it.
bump
anyway, it will be interesting to see what this is
Big Brother OS?
That does seem to be a frequent Microsoft aspiration — to Own It All. A benevolent dictator from their viewpoint perhaps, but an annoying, selfish one from ours.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29
> Odd choice of names, since there is a Midori browser for Linux.
Do you think Microsoft cares? LOL.
Microsoft doesn't give a rat's rear end for other people's names, trademarks, etc. There was already a software company with a product named "Vista" when MS came out with that disaster of an OS, MS just stepped all over the existing outfit, and then the total failure of MS's Vista crushed the usefulness of the smaller company's product name.
"Midori" means "Green" in Japanese, and is in use for LOTS of things. There won't be any challenge to MS on that.
I don’t understand this push to put everything in the cloud. It might make sense for some but a terabyte is relatively cheap and would cover most users for a lifetime. If you put it on the cloud you have no idea who might be rifling through it.
However... the idea of farming out your data processing is not new. When computers were big and expensive and time sharing was first the rage, people often had their vital stuff living on leased equipment on other premises, accessed through dial-up. Cloud might or might not be that generalized. If you knew where your piece of cloud was guaranteed to be, that might help your confidence level.
MS is in major trouble and a new OS isn’t going to make it better.
Rumors say there is going to be a shakeup at 2014 CES by companies tired of cleaning up MS messes.
Cloud is an abstraction, and many people probably would feel better knowing where their piece of cloud actually was. Cloud may be quite good for things that don’t need to be spyproof, if you can reconstruct your data easily and if you can keep secure copies of what matters.
A lot of MS popularity is image and legacy inertia.
If Linux could step up tomorrow and offer businesses the ability to painlessly jack up their front ends and change out the MS engines for Linux... a lot would probably do it.
The new XBox One and PS4 will do a lot of the processing in the cloud. There will be games where what you see will be done online. “Destiny” for instance.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
wouldn't surprise me one bit... or even a byte
Accessibility across multiple user devices in a timely manner seems to me to be the only advantage. Sensitive or otherwise important documents should not be entrusted to a third party, however there are those documents that do not rise to that level, that need to be readily and quickly available on whatever device you’re using at a given time.
And who is going to care whether someone is spying on their game :-)
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