Windows Mobile 8 to be Based on Midori

While Windows Mobile smartphones don't have support for Windows Mobile 6.1 (yet) and Windows Mobile 7 is in the works, rumors have appeared concerning Windows Mobile 8. It appears that the future version 8 of Microsoft's mobile OS will be based on Midori not on Windows CE like its predecessors.

Midori is a code name platform that Microsoft is preparing. Midori is meant to run directly on native hardware and it is an offshoot of Microsoft's Research's Singularity operating system.

According to Microsoft documentation Midori will be built with an asynchronous-only architecture which is designed for concurrency of tasks and parallel use of certain distributed resources on multiple devices whether local or remote. Basically Midori is based on man's need of constantly being updated and in sync with his other devices. The Internet and the ability to have functional applications that respond well no matter what other Windows applications are running and no matter where certain needed data is stored and accessed.

With Midori we might possibly have a faster OS to support our needs no matter what devices we actually use. There's no time frame for Midori so we don't know when it will become available for testing. But when it does, we might call it Windows Mobile 8 among other things. We'd also need to have some official releases and demos to better understand what Midori is all about. In the mean time we have to deal with our current carrier, which might or might not offer a much needed Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrade.