Comment by TowerTall
12 hours ago
Microsoft came close with Midori but bailed out and canned the product just before it should have been released in alfa / beta 1
> Midori is an experimental managed code operating system that was in development until 2015. A joint effort by Microsoft and Microsoft Research, it had been reported to be a possible commercial implementation of the OS Singularity, a research project begun in 2003 to build a highly dependable OS whose kernel, device drivers, and application software would all be written in managed code. It was designed for concurrency, and would run a program spread across multiple nodes at once.[1]
Mostly because of internal politics, it was used in production for Bing.
> While never reaching commercial release, at one time Midori powered all of Microsoft’s natural language search service for the West Coast and Asia.
From https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/singularity...
Enjoy this recording of an internal presentation, while it is still available on YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37WgsoZpf3k
Joe Duffy also did a few presentations, on one of them (too lazy to search for the exact moment), he mentions that even with Midori running in front of them, the Windows team was very sceptical of it,
"RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k
"Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET"
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/csharp-systems-programmi...