Linked by Roberto Dohnert on Tue 17th Jun 2003 19:25 UTC
Everyone knows what Microsoft does by now. What some people do not know is that Microsoft releases a system integration software named Windows services for UNIX. 
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there is mingw, cygwin and numerous little bundles of the basic *nix utilities for dos/windows floating around on the net. just download a set and stick them in your path somewhere. cygwin is a pretty extensive set of tools, so you find a lot of what you'd find in an average Linux distro. the base commandline tools, at least.
the directory scheme as I remember got a lot better after Windows 98, but it really depended on the person. some people kept it clean, but there were tons of people that didn't. you'd type dir and get like 20 files in the root dir, then there would be about 20 directories with aps and games and stuff. at least there is a structure to it now, as compared to a dos(and windows, later) folder and people going wild with junk.
if you ever get to a see eComstation running, you'll see how much of a mess things were in those days.