Linked by Rahul on Sat 11th Oct 2008 04:47 UTC
Red Hat We each behave according to our nature. It should come as no surprise, then, to learn that while a virtualization supplier believes that the operating system is, effectively, a feature, an operating system vendor would argue that the converse is true. The philosophical differences between Red Hat and VMware could not have been more apparent during their respective events - September’s VMworld gathering in Las Vegas and yesterday’s Red Hat analyst day held at the New York Stock Exchange.
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Bending Unit
Member since:
2005-07-06

Maybe its because Windows when you get down to it is still A SINGLE USER DESKTOP OS, which had a few features SLAPPED on it to make it look like a server.

Windows became multi user in 1993 with the release of Windows NT. You are talking about Windows 9x or earlier which was indeed crap.

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Lunitik Member since:
2005-08-07

NT is not multi-user in the true sense of the word... it is single user with profiles etc...

Vista is supposed to be the first true multi-user Windows OS, but I haven't used it or looked into it deeply enough to really talk about that.

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PlatformAgnostic Member since:
2006-01-02

I'm not sure how you can justify your statement. Windows has supported multiple users logging in at the same time since NT 4 with Terminal Services. Before Terminal Services, you could have multiple remote users at a time, but the graphical system was tied to the single console user so your statement would have been accurate for those versions of NT.

But TS is more than a decade and a half old by now and it's been in consumer OSes since the advent of XP.

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