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Posted by Sumeeth Evans April 7, 2009 5:30 PM with 2 comment(s)
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Jonathan Shapiro, one of the chief developers of the BitC language and Coyotos operating system, is joining Microsoft to work on Midori.

Shapiro announced via the BitC mailing list that he will be joining Microsoft in August in a “fairly senior position.”

Coyotos, like Midori, is a microkernel-based operating system. If and when it makes it out of incurbation, Midori is expected to take the form of a distributed, object-oriented operating system which ultimately may supplant Windows. Microsoft officials repeatedly have refused to comment on Midori’s timetable or goals, but Microsoft Senior Vice President of Technical Strategy Eric Rudder is said to be heading up the project.

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cchance said:

i've so been dieing to see one of these microkernel and JIT kernels actually make it into a full blown windows product but i dobut that will ever really happen

April 8, 2009 4:16 AM
 

bklooste said:

Very interesting....but not dist OO.

Though btw distributed OO operating systems are dead ( OO is too chatty) .   Hence this is more based on distributed services.

April 23, 2009 8:58 AM
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