Personally, I wonder how long it takes before redmond realizes that they are wasting shareholder money by maintaining/developing a proprietary kernel. It's not like they could not sell windows/linux as a perfectly good OS with copyrighted components on top of the kernel.
trentnelson|9 years ago
yarrel|9 years ago
So it's about a decade more advanced than UNIX. Put like that, moving to UNIX would be a regression, but not a huge one.
The Linux kernel is of about the same vintage as NT, though. And it's had a lot more work and public review done on it.
beefield|9 years ago
Personally, I wonder how long it takes before redmond realizes that they are wasting shareholder money by maintaining/developing a proprietary kernel. It's not like they could not sell windows/linux as a perfectly good OS with copyrighted components on top of the kernel.
Or then I have missed something significant.