There’s a seemingly related (related to Singularity) project under development at Microsoft which has been hush-hush. That project, codenamed ‘Midori,’ is a new Microsoft operating-system platform that supposedly supersedes Windows. Midori is in incubation, which means it is a little closer to market than most Microsoft Research projects, but not yet close enough to be available in any kind of early preview form.

Do we think Microsoft is gutsy enough to release a completely independent codebase operating system? Given their track record, will people switch to their system, or Apple, or even Linux? We’ll talk in 10 years or so.