Jason White wrote:
Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jason White wrote:
I've heard that the Windows command line still resembles DOS
Do we tend to be the people who
(Trent about the Windows devs)
"looked at unix ten or twenty years ago" | sed 's/unix/Microsoft/g') ? ;-)
No. Note Trent's assertion that his information was of recent origin. This qualification in his post was intended to deal with exactly the objection that you're suggesting.
Not quite. There were two orthogonal points: 1. these ancedotes are about win7/8. This was to pre-empt responses of "well, I'm sure Windows used to be terrible but I think that doesn't happen anymore". 2. one of those anecdotes, is that most of the devs within MS haven't touched a unix in decades, and assume that the problems they had with it back in the 90s are still there in force. I don't really blame the devs for (2) -- as I said to Petr, it to me the other way around. But I do blame MS management, because a good understanding of competing products and prior art helps you make informed design decisions.