SDTimes is running a story about details of a new operating system being developed at Microsoft called Midori. It is supposedly based on Microsoft’s Singularity operating system built entirely on managed code ala .Net.  This could be Microsoft’s first non-Windows commercial OS since DOS. If SDTimes’ details are right it may be the first OS to support one of the features I have been pining for for many years: cloud computing within the home. Read more

I don’t know how many of you caught this but yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows 3.11 reached its end-of life. The first comment I saw about it said this “I never heard of a trojan or virus affecting 3.11.  Heck even DOS today would be fine by me.” Was the grass really greener back then though?

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