[TAG] 'Unix beats Windows' - says Microsoft!

[Mike Orr]

On 11/11/05, Jimmy O'Regan <jimregan at o2.ie> wrote:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php?p=459
>
> "What's noteworthy about it is that Microsoft compared Singularity [MS
> Research's new kernel] to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP - and
> almost every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants."

I wonder how long it will be before Microsoft releases an OS that is
at least Unix compatible at the API and user-command level.  That
would solve the biggest hassle of MS systems, that they use completely
different commands to do the same thing, and one doesn't want to spend
a year learning stuff that is valid for only one OS and could change
at any time.  Apple drank the kool-aid, so maybe MS will eventually
too.  Even just having fork() would halve the difficulty of porting
programs.

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Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com> or <mso at oz.net>