Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealedA non-Windows operating system code named Midori is being architected from the ground-up in managed code.
Midori is an offspring of Microsoft Research’s Singularity OS project and is lead by our old friend from Servers and Tools Eric Rudder.
Midori will be built with an asynchronous-only architecture that is built for task concurrency and parallel use of local and distributed resources, with a distributed component-based and data-driven application model, and dynamic management of power and other resources