It;s been awfully quiet around the Midori front lately. But here;s 1 bit of news related to Microsoft;s (largely) top secret operating-system incubation job: Midori staff Jonathan Shapiro is leaving the firm right after much less than a 12 months.1 of the chief developers with the BitC language and Coyotos working program, Shapiro joined Microsoft to function on Midori last April.In a March nine note towards the BitC mailing list, Shapiro tipped his hand (a bit):“Since I;m not formally out of Microsoft yet,
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Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, Midori is expected to take the form of a distributed, object-oriented running system which ultimately may supplant Windows. Microsoft officials repeatedly have refused to comment on Midori’s timetable or goals. We do know that Microsoft assembled an all-star group to perform about the challenge, however.I asked Shapiro, via e-mail, about his reasons for leaving but didn;t receive more information from him.Microsoft Senior Vice President of Technical Strategy Eric Rudder is said to be heading up the Midori venture. Interestingly, however, Rudder most recently was demonstrating Microsoft;s three-screens-and-a-cloud strategy at TechEd in Dubai.Does Shapiro;s departure and Rudder;s recent public appearance flogging Windows Phone 7 mean that Midori is no more? Or might it mean that elements of Midori have moved into a Microsoft product group (or groups) — the next natural phase of an incubation? Remember: Midori has a lot of implications for Microsoft;s future cloud strategy, so it;s not entirely odd that Rudder was talking up devices and the cloud. Still, all this does have me curious.Microsoft still isn;t talking in any way about Midori,
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