POST WINDOWS ERA :: Microsoft Midori

Microsoft closing the windows and opening the doors!

Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system code named Midori, the predecessor to Windows Vista. Microsoft’s logic behind the naming of midori is still mysterious, as it has different meaning in different languages. Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows. Midori, the cut-down operating system is radically different to Microsoft's older programs. It is centred on the internet and does away with the dependencies that tie Windows to a single PC. It is seen as Microsoft's answer to rivals' use of "virtualisation" as a way to solve many of the problems of modern-day computing.

Midori is Internet-centric and predicated on the prevalence of connected systems. Midori is an offshoot of Microsoft Research’s Singularity operating system, the tools and libraries of which are completely managed code. One of Microsoft’s goals is to provide options for Midori applications to co-exist with and interoperate with existing Windows applications, as well as to provide a migration path.

Singularity is an attempt by Microsoft to create a completely new built from scratch operating system. It has an entirely new Microkernel, process management and a made over task and resource allocation manager.

According to SDTimes, Midori will be focused not on the desktop as Windows was, but on the cloud and on connected systems. With Windows 7, Microsoft is already bridging the operating system with Windows Live, but Midori will take this aspect one step further in the quest for what will end up as the first fully-fledged Software + Services platform from Microsoft.

Building Midori from the ground up to be connected underscores how much computing has changed since Microsoft’s engineers first designed Windows; there was no Internet as we understand it today, the PC was the user’s sole device and concurrency was a research topic.

Today, users move across multiple devices, consume and share resources remotely, and the applications that they use are a composite of local and remote components and services. To that end, Midori will focus on concurrency, both for distributed applications and local ones.

According to the documentation, 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.

The Midori documents foresee applications running across a multitude of topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at separate places.

The Midori documents indicate that the company has not decided what user interface abstractions are appropriate when applications cut across boundaries, or how to combine the best qualities of rich client applications and Web applications.

Unlike Windows, Microsoft intends for Midori to be componentized from the beginning to achieve performance and security benefits. It will have strong isolation boundaries and enforced contracts between components, to ensure that servicing one component will not cause others to fail.

This so-called "cloud-computing" aspect of the Midori OS seems to be what the future holds, and I think it’s right. The Internet will become the ultimate central storage unit, and simple, cheap hardware will be all that’s needed to access it.

E mail Management

E mail Management

Recently yahoo announced its two new email domains for its customers, ymail.com and rocketmail.com. With this two new email domain, yahoo consumers have a better option to select the desired user name. Yahoo.com email addresses are currently used (or claimed) by over 260 million global users, and chances are, if you’re new to Yahoo Mail, your name is taken and you probably have to register some ridiculous email address, like yourname1989_abc768@yahoo.com. Now, Yahoo Mail users have a more vivid choice in registering their favorite email addresses or usernames. Ymail.com and Rocketmail.com will have the same features as Yahoo.com email addresses like unlimited storage, instant messaging integration and virus protection. So select your favourite email address now from ymail.com and rocketmail.com. I have already registered my name on both domains…

Getting an Email address is not a tedious task. But managing it effectively needs greater effort, particularly when you have multiple email accounts. In my opinion you should create at least two email addresses, one for friends & family and other for official use. You can have multiple email accounts delivered to a single email. i.e if you have 3 email address you can read all mails inside one single mail by using POP downloading or message forwarding. For eg: you have one gmail and one yahoo account, and you usually checks only gmail: in this case you can forward your incoming yahoo mails to your gmail account and read it inside one mail address, similarly multiple emails address can be directed to forward to a single mail.

Email Mail Forwarding
Email forwarding or pop download to another email is the easiest way to access multiple emails in a single email. Different email providers have different settings to do this, moreover a few free email service providers don’t allow pop download also. So if you want to do pop download, first check with your email service provider that whether they have a POP server or not.

Setting UP a POP Downloading to Gmail



Click on Settings > Accounts > Add Another Mail Account


Enter the mail address to be downloaded to Gmail


Check Whether POP Access is activated in your other mail.



Enter the correct POP Settings for the other mail account. These settings can find inside the particular mail providers website. Here i get the settings from yahoo website.

Finally a message appear, asking that whether you want to send mail using that mail account. i.e in this case i can send mail using ymail account from my gmail. select the desired option and click finish.

You have now successfully enabled POP downloading into your gmail account.

I selected Gmail here for the incoming mail, because i think gmail have better spam identification features. and gmail also have an embedded messenger for communication.

What if your Mail provider dont allow POP?

If your mail provider dont have a pop facility, you can use the mail forwarding feature. It works similar. The main difference is that you can use POP download in as many programs but mail forward usually can used to forward to only one email address. So the choice is yours.

A mail forwarding feature inside yahoo mail.

Another feature inside Gmail for email management is the labels. You can add labels to a particular mail address and you can retrive all mails from those mail using a single click on that label.

If you recieve any unwanted messaged into your inbox, report it as a spam to the service provider. So that will be sent to the spam box instead of your inbox.


Yahoo have some other features, like folder so that we can create folders and arrange differnt mails or filter mails into those folders.

Gmail also have filter which enables to filter mails based on the incoming mail.