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MSI Winki: Instant-on Operating System
Techtree News Staff, Mar 05, 2009 1459 hrs ISTIs Linux-based, available only for desktops
MSI has announced a new MSI Winki product at the on going CeBIT 2009 trade show at Hannover, Germany. The new MSI Winki is an instant-on operating system intended for desktops only at the moment. The MSI Winki currently comes loaded on a dongle like devices. MSI calls Winki a new Internet interactive device without an operating system.
Based on Linux kernel, MSI Winki is an instant-on operating system that loads immediately with bunch of web apps. By instant-on, the whole operating system boots up on few seconds instead of a minute or two. The concept of instant-on in not new and it started with the SplashTop. Xandros had also launched Presto "instant-on" platform for PCs and laptop at the Demo 09 conference.
MSI Winki will be like a dongle for only select motherboards. Winki includes a sandboxed Firefox browser, Skype for VoIP calls, pidgin and other communication programs. These applications can take a user online pretty fast as compared with a conventional desktop application. Winki's user interface has faint impressions of Mashup comprising of Mac OS X and Windows 7 user interfaces.
This Winki feature will be incorporated in MSI's notebooks just like Phoenix Technologies offering HyperSpace, their instant on OS which is expected to appear in Asus and Acer notebooks. It targets users who wish to quickly go online and communicate using desktop based web-apps.
Based on Linux kernel, MSI Winki is an instant-on operating system that loads immediately with bunch of web apps. By instant-on, the whole operating system boots up on few seconds instead of a minute or two. The concept of instant-on in not new and it started with the SplashTop. Xandros had also launched Presto "instant-on" platform for PCs and laptop at the Demo 09 conference.
MSI Winki will be like a dongle for only select motherboards. Winki includes a sandboxed Firefox browser, Skype for VoIP calls, pidgin and other communication programs. These applications can take a user online pretty fast as compared with a conventional desktop application. Winki's user interface has faint impressions of Mashup comprising of Mac OS X and Windows 7 user interfaces.
This Winki feature will be incorporated in MSI's notebooks just like Phoenix Technologies offering HyperSpace, their instant on OS which is expected to appear in Asus and Acer notebooks. It targets users who wish to quickly go online and communicate using desktop based web-apps.
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