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Wow. What’s next? Windows itself? What if the next iteration of Windows was based on Intel’s Clear Linux?

There were rumors of a Winux project at Microsoft that put the Windows GUI on top of Xenix. I don't think it was true. But the idea of moving the OS to a Unix OS goes back to MacOSX. Microsoft could do worse than putting Windows on top of Linux.

> Microsoft could do worse than putting Windows on top of Linux.

Start a new OS, along side Windows, based on Linux/Unix.

Make it as stable as Windows for the every-day user, because let's be realistic, even Ubuntu can't manage it.

Ship all new laptops/PCs with this new OS.

Continue supporting Windows/Server for the enterprise.

That would be so awesome.

Or better create a new OS with modern technologies, great new ideas and open source it. Linux is nice, but we need some architectural innovation here.

There was a research project years ago that wrote an OS in C#. It wanted to be super stable, modern and no cruft. I forget the codename but was hoping it would see light of day.

I believe it was the MS Research project Singularity which grew into Midori.

That’s it! Thanks for the research it was bugging me. Tip of the tongue sort of situation.

They should restart Midori

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