Microsoft Windows comes in the years and it is time to throw Windows out of the window and clean up desktop for the new ideas. Midori is the code name for the possible successor of Windows.

After 22 years having Windows, Microsoft is preparing the end of Windows-Era. It is the most possible time for that: Internet and Browsers replace die duties of operation systems, local uses, services and applications. It is time for Windows to be more secure, faster and smaller. For trends such as Notebook, Microsoft Windows Vista is too big and bulked. That is the reason why Windows XP has to live longer than planned.  

The solution for these problems

Midori could be the legacy of Windows generation. It is completely restructured operation system, which has been known in the past as Singularity and Microsoft already has started with that in 2003. Midori should be smaller, speedier and more secure. In the future, it does not matter if you run an application locally or from internet, Midori will take care of them. In Midori, the operation system and the applications will be run independent from hardware.

Independent from Hardware and System

The everyday life for Windows users, that the operation system and applications have to be installed and they are linked and depended to hardware. Even a wrong version of a driver can crash applications and Windows. Another big problem, that you are not able to transfer a good functional operation system from one computer to another one.

Midori should solve all these problems with the virtualization. One part of operation system adopts the duties of hypervisors. The applications and software run in a virtual blocks and they are independent from hardware. Compatibility problems, which Vista´s users know, will be for the past.

So far the virtualization means losing performance. Therefore the Midori developers have to find a cleverer interface, which minimizes the lost of performance. Microsoft believes in double-layers cores. It is a compact micro core and the first layer takes charge of the communication with hardware. The second of the core will take change of the virtualization and other duties of operation system.

High performance even with slower computers

Microsoft designs Midori as a linked network, which runs local applications and the remote resources on a pc even on a slow notebook.

The most resent sample is the external and online hard-discs. Google has shown it is possible to use online hard-discs without suing the local hard drives. It has only one problem and it is data security in internet, which has to be solved. You can never know who is accessing your private files, which you have uploaded into the online servers and hard-drives. I believe it is a nice idea but it is not practical, because of security and the speed of internet connections.

Now the question is, when Microsoft publishes Midori?

It is unknown if and when Microsoft will release the final version of Midori. Midori´s developers believe in Midori as a research project, which might be released in the future. We are sure that the successor of Windows Vista has the code-name "Windows 7" and Microsoft is working on it.

It is sure that Midori cannot be developed too easy and right now Microsoft sets value on a combination of Midori and Windows, which will be Windows 7.