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MS should dump Windows in favor of a Unix-based windowing shell

• stcredzero 18y ago
  Why Unix? It's not like it's the ultimate OS. If M$ is smart, they'll forge ahead with Singularity. Unix's security model is great for mainframes with a knowledgeable super user custodian. It's outdated for today's Internet.
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    • william42 18y ago
      It probably means that the Unix security model (user,group,world) is a bit limited and has a single point of failure(root). Anything less than capabilities is going to have similar flaws. Better than UAC though.
  • cperciva 18y ago
    Unix's security model is great for mainframes with a knowledgeable super user custodian. It's outdated for today's Internet. You're right that the traditional user-group-other read-write-execute security model is outdated, but modern freenixes have support for ACLs -- so in this respect Microsoft could replicate the existing Windows model on top of Unix. I don't think that Microsoft should give up on Singularity -- it sounds like a very exciting research project -- but it might be a good idea to have a back-up plan in case Singularity doesn't work out.