14 DAY TRIAL // James Larus, the man behind a non-Windows operating system developed by Microsoft, has decided to leave the software giant in order to become a dean of computer science at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne in Switzerland.
Even though his name might not ring any bells to you, Larus was a principle researcher at Microsoft Research and one of those responsible for the Singularity OS project, a non-Windows operating system based on managed code.
Singularity has never been released by Microsoft, even though work on the project started in 2003. Five years later, after intense development, the company decided to abandon Singularity and make the source codes available for download for academic projects.
Even though not much has been said about Larus’ role in the project, it appears that some of the features he developed for this OS are also part of Midori, another non-Windows operating system that’s currently under development at Microsoft.
Word is that Midori could be released at some point in the feature, but the Softies are still keeping everything secret right now.