Way off in a far far galaxy aliens are hard at work making a new program to take over from windows...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7540282.stmMicrosoft 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 the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC.
It is seen as Microsoft's answer to rivals' use of "virtualisation" as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day computing.
Although Midori has been heard about before now, more details have now been published by Software Development Times after viewing internal Microsoft documents describing the technology.
Who thinks these names up eh folks, this is the usual microsoft trick when they are concerned about competition, announce vapourware and hope folks will wait until something arrives, usually a lot later than announced, if only we really did have aliens on the case, things might actually work reliably.
