Microsoft Could Learn OS Foundation Lessons from Apple
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| While Microsoft was reaping the rewards of this compatibility, Apple
| took the time to move its entire customer base to a highly secure BSD
| Unix OS. "Microsoft didn't. They're faced with massive-scale exploits
| like the spreading ANI vulnerability, Venezia concluded. "That affects
| every Microsoft OS, server and workstation alike, across the board.
| This gives us a glimpse into the code shared between generations of
| Microsoft OSes, and it's not a pretty view."
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http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/56823.html
"People who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reimplement it, poorly"
Related:
NT influenced by Unix
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| (Gates:) "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design.
| In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the
| design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And
| that's no accident."
|
| In light of the recent saber rattling about Linux and patents, the "There
| are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that
| environment" sentence is particularly interesting if these patent
| threats include things that are prior Unix art. "In a weak sense, it
| is a form of Unix" is also telling. I said before that I don't think
| that's the case; I think the patent stuff is talking about things like
| Samba and Mono, but even there the "influenced by that environment"
| could be important in the court of public opinion if not in actual
| law.
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/gates_quote.html
Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer
If Only We Knew Then What We Know Now About Windows XP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/23/AR2006092300510.html?nav=rss_technology
Why Windows is a security nightmare
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120110704.html
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