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> Had Microsoft actually improved the POSIX personality on Windows NT, instead of having it as bullet point to win contracts in some areas, I doubt many would h
by llampx 8y ago
> Had Microsoft actually improved the POSIX personality on Windows NT, instead of having it as bullet point to win contracts in some areas, I doubt many would have cared that much about GNU/Linux.
I can see why Microsoft wanted to push Windows and the GUI itself as a new way of interacting with the system, rather than have it come off as a cheap copy of Linux. You couldn't even administer Windows server from the command line until quite recently if I recall. You had to install all of Windows, including the GUI, even if all you wanted was access to the Powershell. Its only changed from Windows Server 2012 onwards. They really believed that Linux and the terminal were obsolete.
- Godel_unicode 8y agoInterestingly it's now gone quite the other way; there are many Windows admin tasks which can only be accomplished using powershell.
- pjmlp 8y agoThere are still GUI tools that help calling those powershell scripts if desired, like the new Windows Admin Center. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/extend/guides/powershell https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...
- pjmlp 8y agoThat isn't quite true regarding the command line on Windows. At least since Windows 2000 it is possible to automate Windows via VBScript (JScript was possible as well, but never got much use), COM Automation and WMI. And every savvy Windows admin has had the Windows Technet shell utilities installed as well. Just not the way UNIX devs would expect every other OS to behave.