Midori (operating system)

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Midori
Developer Microsoft Corporation
Written in C# custom variant M#
OS family Capability-based
Working stateDiscontinued [1]
Initial release2008;17 years ago (2008)
Final release Final / 2015;10 years ago (2015)
Update methodCompile from source code
Platforms IA-32, x86-64, ARM
Kernel type Microkernel (Language-based)

Midori (which means green in Japanese) was the code name for a managed code operating system (OS) being jointly developed by Microsoft and Microsoft Research. It had been reported [2] [3] to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS whose kernel, device drivers, and application software would all be written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and would run a program spread across multiple nodes at once. [4] It also featured a security model that sandboxes applications for increased security. [5] Microsoft had mapped out several possible migration paths from Windows to Midori. [6] Midori was discontinued some time in 2015, though many of its concepts were used in other Microsoft projects.

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History

The code name Midori was first discovered through the PowerPoint presentation CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software. [7]

Another reference to Midori was found in a presentation shown during the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA) October 2012 conference, [8] and a paper [9] from the conference's proceedings.

References

  1. ↑ Foley, Mary Jo (10 November 2015). "Whatever happened to Microsoft's Midori operating system project?". ZDNet . CBS Interactive.
  2. ↑ Foley, Mary Jo (30 June 2008). "Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori". ZDNet . CBS Interactive.
  3. ↑ Oiaga, Marius (2008-06-30). "Life After Windows: Microsoft Midori Operating System". Softpedia . Retrieved 2008-07-22.
  4. ↑ Worthington, David (2008-07-29). "Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed". SD Times . Archived from the original on November 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ Worthington, David (2008-08-05). "Microsoft's Midori to sandbox apps for increased security". SD Times . Archived from the original on December 22, 2009.
  6. ↑ Worthington, David (2008-07-31). "Microsoft maps out migration from Windows". SD Times . Archived from the original on July 1, 2013.
  7. ↑ Musuvathi, Madanlal; Qadeer, Shaz; Ball, Thomas (November 2007). CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software (Report). Microsoft. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
  8. ↑ Foley, Mary Jo (November 8, 2012). "Microsoft's Midori operating-system skunkworks project soldiers on". ZDnet . CBS Interactive . Retrieved 2012-11-08.
  9. ↑ Gordon, Colin; Parkinson, Matthew; Parsons, Jared; Bromfield, Aleks; Duffy, Joe (October 2012). "Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism". Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications. OOPSLA '12. Tucson, Arizona, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 21–40. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.365.5541 . doi:10.1145/2384616.2384619.
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