While a there’s been a lot of discussion recently about the failures of Vista and the upcoming Windows 7 Beta, and the Yahoo, Google, MSN flurry, the attention has been taken away from something much more interesting coming out of Redmond.
If you’ll remember an earlier post Create experiences that combine the magic of…blah…blah…blah, you’ll know that Microsoft’s current Vision statement is one that moves the company away from the desktop and windows, toward a more “clouded” hybrid. What was the full vision statement?
“Create experiences that combine the magic of software with the power of Internet services across a world of devices.”
Yeah, see how clouded that is?
OK today it became a little more concrete for me. From hello://internet:
Recently Microsoft announced that it was developing an operating system (code named Midori) that “is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC”.
Check out this video highlighted by Ahassan:
Did you just see that? Makes a lot of sense for the company doesn’t it? Talk about a new platform. It’s worth reading more of what Ahassan says about Midori’s potential.
Essentially what this means is potentially a complete conversion of the web. Right now we have websites, and web “applications.” We’ve seen many applications sprout up as products like Picnik, and Photoshop.com. Of course you can’t for get Zoho and Google Docs, or even Mobile Me? This Silverlight based applications approach however points towards something even more robust, with more implications.
By the looks of the video Microsoft has something very compelling here, and if they could get a foothold they have a potential to supplant, or at least be the gateway to great many web services/applications.
Like it or not this, I have to say, is much more exciting than anything like Windows 7.
Living Critic 