Aug 4 2007 4:26pm from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd 
The worst of Xenix was still preferable to the best of Windows.  
   
 Microsoft had several opportunities to ubiquitize a quality operating system,
irrespective of their horrific business practices.  They could have built 
their next-gen OS on top of Xenix.  They could have finished the OS/2 project 
instead of stabbing IBM in the back and doing Windows on top of DOS.  They 
could have even completed Dave Cutler's vision for Windows NT instead of 
MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE and top-loading all of their crap into the Win32
layer instead of building around the NT microkernel.  
   
 They could have done any of the above, and still practiced their bullshit 
monopolistic business practices, and they could have still taken over the 
market.  In fact, if they had built Presentation Manager on top of Xenix, it's
entirely possible that Linux would not exist today, and the X Window System 
would never have evolved past the days of TWM and Athena Widgets because all 
the unixheads would have happily moved to the commodity operating system.  
   
 But no.  Aside from being monopolistic bullies in the marketplace, they also 
consistently deliver really bad products.  There is a reason Linux has already
overtaken Windows in the enterprise computing market, and has denied them a 
monopoly in this area.  People who run back end data center applications don't
want an operating system that has a GUI intertwined with the bottom layers of 
the OS.  They don't want mouse clicks in the same event queue as disk and 
network I/O.  Windows is a bullshit design and it will never be adequate.