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Microsofts Hilf Says Windows More Reliable Than Linux

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Mar 2006 01:00 UTC, submitted by Not_My_Real_Name

The director of platform strategy at Microsoft, Bill Hilf has lead the Linux and open source software technology group at Redmond for the past two years and formerly headed the global Linux technical strategy of IBM. He says reliability and predicability are the key factors which give Microsoft's software the edge over Linux and open source alternatives.

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RE[3]: As usual

by ma_d on Fri 17th Mar 2006 06:02 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: As usual"

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2005-06-29

One could probably make a solid argument that it's been around since the SunOS manual Linus used for POSIX reference was written.
But by the same argument you could go back recursively to whenever Unix got solid user seperation and limitations.

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