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Microsoft should bite the bullet and simply create another operating system, created from scratch. They have the experience and the know how to avoid all the mi
by unnouinceput 6y ago
Microsoft should bite the bullet and simply create another operating system, created from scratch. They have the experience and the know how to avoid all the mistakes. Offer them in parallel, keep a virtual machine (an Wine equivalent if you want) that would run Windows programs and overall simplify the API's while only the new one would receive new developing. And in 10 years Windows would be history. I know it won't happen but once can only dream though.
- Philadelphia 6y agoThey tried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29
- masterofmisc 6y agoI would love to know why Midori failed and the reasons why they decided to discontinue it. It would be a great war story to read (if a Microsoft employee was allowed to write it up). I love the idea of starting a new modern OS written from the ground up with security and safety in mind sound. However, it looks like Microsoft took a different direction with WindowsX. Instead, it looks like they have taken a bold leap and hacked out all of the Win32 guts from Windows to make it a Chromebook competitor. And the talk on the town is, further down the line, they will re-add Win32 back in as a virtualised service (i guess kinda like WSL2) so its completely sandboxed from the rest of the OS.