I really like the point that an API-centric console does not remote well (think ssh). In general I prefer the WIN32 object-handle model to the Unix file-descri

I really like the point that an API-centric console does not remote well (think ssh). In general I prefer the WIN32 object-handle model to the Unix file-descriptor model, and I much prefer the WIN32 security descriptor and access token model to the Unix haphazard security model, but very clearly, the everything-is-a-file model is superior at least for remote access: it's easier to design and implement protocols for that since the protocols don't need to know anything about the remote resources' nature. Thus the Windows console cannot be exported via SSH, not without writing a layer that converts text reads/writes into ioctls, because it's not remotely file-like. That the Windows team had to and did write that layer really is fantastic news.