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| Authored by: DeepBlue on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT |
That's the biggest issue Microsoft have - Windows was never designed with the
possibility of an open network, surprised you think this is controversial.
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All that matters is whether they can show ownership, they haven't and they
can't, or whether they can show substantial similarity, they haven't and they
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 06:27 PM EDT |
Well, no. Windows 95 predates Windows NT.
Windows NT was a total rewrite - MSoft made a big deal about hiring Dave Cutler
from DEC to design and write it. The top level interface had to be reasonably
consistent with the original Windows interface (to the extent that MSoft *ever*
remains consistent, which is not much and never if there is financial advantage
for them to make a change). Network security was certainly a consideration in
that design (DEC's operating systems had been using their own networking and
then Internet networking for decades at that point). I think though, that the
requirement for consistency lead to tradeoffs where security that was designed
into NT was bypassed to permit existing programs to continue to run - all of the
huge PC applications were written (mostly) with no consideration of security and
they had never been forced into it by earlier versions of Windows. So, NT
security got watered down significantly in practice - business goals trump
security most of the time.
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