No argument that a desktop environment and a database server are different things. It'd be hard to judge which is a more complex task. Even still, read the st

No argument that a desktop environment and a database server are different things. It'd be hard to judge which is a more complex task. Even still, read the story about how they built an OS abstraction layer on top of Windows and Linux and then ported their product to it. That was an impressive feat and an perfect example of Microsoft doing something (maybe only this one thing) right. Unlike Office on Mac which was a piece of shit for very many years and a very different product than Office on Windows.