Breaking past a lull of information today: Mary Jo Foley rekindled talk about Microsoft's Midori operating system incubation project. Foley is reporting that Jonathan Shapiro, who is recognized for his work developing OS kernels, is joining the Midori team.
Microsoft recruited Shapiro from the BitC language and Coyotos operating system projects. In my opinion, his presence is more evidence that Midori is more than an experiment, as Microsoft has previously claimed. Microsoft placed information about Midori under a "need to know" lock and key following my reports about it last year.
The Midori project is headed up by Microsoft's Eric Rudder, Bill Gates' technical assistant. Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity
operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely
managed code. 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. It is Internet-centric and design for connected systems. For the full details on Midori, see our previous coverage.