[dayglored]

From the comments section:

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

~ Henry Spencer

The MS blog-author's protest that Microsoft does understand Unix by mentioning SysVR4, Sequent, VMS, and MVS, is pathetic. Sure those were and remain great and fundamental technologies, but the real development is being done these days on NEW things (like hyperthreaded multi-core support to name only one) where there's still a lot to be learned.

Microsoft lost their claim to anything UNIX when they sold XENIX and bought Seattle Computer's QDOS (Quick-n-Dirty Operating System), crossed out "QDOS" and wrote in "MS-DOS" in crayon.

Microsoft still believes Open Source is a "cancer", to quote Mr. Steve "Chairs" Ballmer. This is just their latest maneuver towards Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Tech pings...?

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS

[papasmurf]

Don’t take it personal. It’s “only business”. /sarc