Some newly posted videos from a 2013 internal Microsoft meeting reveal more details behind Midori, a Microsoft operating system software project that was not based on the Windows OS.
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New images show the price and specifications of the upcoming Meizu MX6, powered by Ubuntu. The leak follows news of an under-wraps device, called 'Midori', which was reported on earlier in the week.
A new Ubuntu phone could be coming from Meizu soon after a new device codename was mentioned on the Launchpad bug tracking website. The 'Midori' codename does not correspond to any known phone.
James Larus, the leader of Microsoft's now shut down Singularity OS project, has left the company after 16 years to become the new dean of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne.
While Microsoft may have just launched both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company is apparently still working on a non-Windows operating system in secret, code-named Midori.
Midori (Japanese for green) is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. Midori is based on WebKit, the same layout rendering engine used by Safari, Mac's default web browser.
Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. It is centred on...
