Randall Kennedy shares this prediction with readers: Windows “Midori,” with its fresh-start architecture and pipe-dream compute model, will never see the light of day.“What will happen is that the myriad concepts associated with “Midori” will trickle down into staid old Windows and be implemented as User Mode extensions that further integrate the OS into the cloud (you can see some of this today with Live Mesh),” Kennedy asserts in Is Midori doomed to fail? Kennedy’s biggest problem with Midori — and he has a fistful or them — is that Microsoft advocates dropping the NT kernel in favor of something newer and lighter, but “when stripped to the core, NT is remarkably lithe,” he adds. Software Development