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Re:My Microsoft Experience (2013) by melted on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:58PM (#9601218)
You've misunderstood. I'm not talking about bolting on a UNIX-like abomination on the side. I'm saying Microsoft needs to replace Windows userland with UNIX userland, much like Apple did well over a decade ago. That's what Microsoft would need to do for Windows to become a decent dev platform again.
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Re:My Microsoft Experience (2013) by douche on Monday May 25, 2015 @08:35PM (#9602349)
It'll never happen. Backwards compatibility is too important for Windows to burn the ships like that. I don't even want to think how many millions of lines of code would need to be rewritten.
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Re:My Microsoft Experience (2013) by melted on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @02:24AM (#9603211)
Backwards compatibility could easily be maintained. .bat/.cmd files could be executed by an interpreter called from this shell. It's just another userland, and compared to Windows userland, a very small one.
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