Intriguing news has emerged from the geekosphere: the SD Times reports that Microsoft is planning its post-Windows future - and has named it "Midori".
Microsoft's basic idea is to secure its future in an age when most software is being used via a web connection rather than sold to people to install on their PCs. As such, it's a logical progression from Microsoft's newish Live Mesh web-desktop synchronisation service.
This in itself is an interesting case of Google and Microsoft starting from opposite positions and meeting in the middle: web-hosted Google develops Google Gears to let you work offline, while desktop-based Microsoft releases Live Mesh to let you work online.
Two questions, though. One: why does no one get as excited about a major strategic development at Microsoft as when Apple releases an iPod without a screen? And why Midori? After the melon-flavoured liqueur (eeuch)? Or the Japanese violinist?
