Neowin News Feed for: Midori

Browser Choice Alliance slams Microsoft for latest shady Edge tactic

Usama Jawad — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:50:01 +0000

A browser coalition, involving Google, blasts Microsoft's Edge push, warning Windows 11 tests quietly nudge users back to Edge and undermine real choice. Read more...

Check out some newly revealed videos that describe Microsoft's canceled Midori OS project

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:46:01 +0000

Some newly posted videos from a 2013 internal Microsoft meeting reveal more details behind Midori, a Microsoft operating system software project that was not based on the Windows OS. Read more...

Ubuntu Midori device is probably the Meizu MX6 shown in new leaks

Paul Hill — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:46:01 +0000

New images show the price and specifications of the upcoming Meizu MX6, powered by Ubuntu. The leak follows news of an under-wraps device, called 'Midori', which was reported on earlier in the week. Read more...

Possible Meizu device running Ubuntu in the works - codenamed Midori

Paul Hill — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 02:12:01 +0000

A new Ubuntu phone could be coming from Meizu soon after a new device codename was mentioned on the Launchpad bug tracking website. The 'Midori' codename does not correspond to any known phone. Read more...

James Larus, leader of Microsoft's Singularity OS project, departs company

John Callaham — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:15:51 +0000

James Larus, the leader of Microsoft's now shut down Singularity OS project, has left the company after 16 years to become the new dean of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne. Read more...

Microsoft's super secret non-Windows OS project lives!

John Callaham — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 16:34:59 +0000

While Microsoft may have just launched both Windows 8 and Windows RT, the company is apparently still working on a non-Windows operating system in secret, code-named Midori. Read more...

Midori 0.4.1

Razvan Serea — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:41:20 +0000

Midori (Japanese for green) is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. Midori is based on WebKit, the same layout rendering engine used by Safari, Mac's default web browser. Read more...

Microsoft sees end of Windows era

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:38:38 +0000

Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Called Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. It is centred on... Read more...