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It does not say it only took the name in 2012, it implies that it was named Midori by November 2007 when the name leaked, and if you are doubtful, you can check Google Books and find multiple published mentions of the MS Midori OS in books all dating to 2008 attributing it to other sources, such as a September 2008 article on Midori: https://redmondmag.com/Articles/2008/09/01/Will-Microsoft-Ta... in which there is no mention of it having been renamed recently. Since the web browser was first released in December 2007 according to WP and was extremely obscure, it is entirely probable that the OS was named either before or in total ignorance of the browser, and you are being a paranoid ass.


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