Midori (operating system)

Midori (which means green in Japanese) was the code name for a managed code operating system (OS) being developed by Microsoft with joint effort of Microsoft Research. It had been reported^[2][3] to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS in which the kernel, device drivers, and application software are all written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and could run a program spread across multiple nodes at once.^[4] It also featured a security model that sandboxes applications for increased security.^[5] Microsoft had mapped out several possible migration paths from Windows to Midori.^[6] Midori was discontinued some time in 2015, though many of its concepts were used in other Microsoft projects.