Windows' days may be numbered
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 23:21.
Could Microsoft be switching away from Windows?
Some very interesting documents have been leaking out of Microsoft. They clearly indicate, believe it or not, that Microsoft is considering shifting its users from Windows to a new operating system: Midori.
And, when I say "new," I mean new. This isn't the kind of lip-service change that we saw with David Cutler and NT or Jim Allchin and Vista. Midori, under Eric Rudder, senior vice president for technical strategy, isn't a cosmetic change; it's a completely new operating system.
Now, you may not believe that the Linux desktop or the Mac is really taking market share from Windows, but they are. In the U.K., Linux was preinstalled on 2.9% of all PCs sold in June. Meanwhile, 14% of all PCs sold in the U.S. are Macs. People are no longer mindlessly buying Windows systems, and Microsoft knows that.
Midori is many windows on IE ? Cloud computing data centers ?
Midori project is similar to Ulteo?
It will probably boot into Internet explorer and connect to Microsoft data center in many windows.
Linux does not have the money to invest into huge data centers.
Data centers will be more than broadband office services. It will have ipTV, telephony triple play; all services rolled into one service.