According to the IDG News Service, Microsoft seems to be preparing for the day when the Windows client operating system becomes obsolete with a project codenamed Midori, which seeks to create a componentized, non-Windows operating system that will take advantage of technologies not available when Windows first was conceived.Recent reports suggest that Midori is an Internet-centric operating system, based on the idea of connected systems, that largely eliminates the dependencies between local applications and the hardware they run on that exist with a typical operating system

Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system project that creates “software-isolated processes” to reduce the dependencies between individual applications, and between the applications and the operating system itself.. Midori is designed to run directly on native hardware (x86, x64 and ARM), be hosted on the Windows Hyper-V hypervisor, or even be hosted by a Windows process.

One of Microsoft’s goals is to provide options for Midori applications to co-exist with existing Windows applications, as well as to provide a usable migration path.

Building Midori from scratch to be inter-connected underscores how much computing has changed since Microsoft’s engineers first designed Windows;

If Midori is close to what people think it is, it will represent a major shift for Windows users and shows how much computing has changed and become more Internet reliant since Microsoft first designed Windows